Editor: Carroll 'Emotionally Fragile'

Jill Carroll, described as "emotionally fragile," went reluctantly to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone — the place her captors had warned her was infiltrated with insurgents — and spent Friday in seclusion, recovering from 82 days of captivity.

After her three-month ordeal, Jill Carroll looked remarkably composed in a televised interview shortly after her release. But CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports that what was not filmed was the weeping young woman who walked through the door of the Iraqi Islamic Party office shortly before.

That's what Tariq al-Hashemi told CBS News about the emotional moment when Carroll suddenly appeared — and the hour it took to calm her down — before a Baghdad television station turned on the cameras.

Carroll's editor at the Christian Science Monitor described her as "emotionally fragile" after the ordeal.

Carroll agreed to be debriefed this morning, Logan reports, and her closest friend and colleague in Baghdad, Scott Peterson, told CBS News that she's still at the embassy, talking to everyone who wants to meet with her.

"Yesterday was way too soon. I think they're investigating whether she could leave today," said Richard Bergenheim, editor of the Boston-based newspaper. "But her family wants to make sure that she's strong enough, emotionally and otherwise, to take this step."

"It was like falling off a cliff for three months, waiting to hit the ground," Carroll told the Washington Post on Thursday after being released.

A second video was also released Thursday, Logan reports. Carroll's captors posted a propaganda interview on an Islamic Web site in which she praises the insurgents and spoke out against the U.S. military presence.

"Tens of thousands ... have lost their lives here because of the occupation," she said in the video. "I think Americans need to think about that and realize day-to-day how difficult life is here."

She said the insurgents were "only trying to defend their country ... to stop an illegal and dangerous and deadly occupation."

U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Liz Colton declined comment, saying all queries regarding Carroll were being handled by her family and the Monitor.

Bergenheim said Carroll's parents, who spoke to her about the video, told him it was "conducted under duress."

In a statement on the newspaper's Web site, Carroll's father, Jim, said his daughter had been taught to fear her captors and was forced to make the video, reports Logan.

They had murdered her colleague when she was kidnapped, and she was told they had already killed another American hostage.

Carroll was expected to fly to Germany on Saturday, though it was unclear if she would stay there for medical examinations or travel on to the United States.

Carroll's mother, Mary Beth Carroll, declined to discuss the timing or location of the reunion when reached by phone Friday morning at her Evanston, Ill., home. As CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers notes, she has been celebrating her daughter's release in private.

Carroll, who was seized Jan. 7 in western Baghdad by gunmen who killed her Iraqi translator, was dropped off Thursday at an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Arab organization, and later escorted to the Green Zone by the U.S. military, the Monitor said Friday. The newspaper said her captors had warned her not to cooperate with the Americans and said the Green Zone was infiltrated with insurgents.

She was reluctant to go at first, but Peterson convinced her it was safe, the newspaper said.

In a video posted on an Islamist Web site, her abductors said they released Carroll because "the American government met some of our demands by releasing some of our women from prison."

The kidnappers, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all female detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 or Carroll would be killed.

U.S. officials did release some female detainees at the time, but said it had nothing to do with the kidnappers' demands. On Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the United States is still holding four women.

Most of the video consisted of an interview with Carroll, who answered questions about the state of Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion three years ago. She defended the Iraqi people and talked of the hardships they face.

"People don't have electricity. They don't have water," she said. "Children don't have safe streets to walk in. Women and children are always in danger."

She said Americans have failed to grasp that reality in Iraq.

Carroll appeared tense at times in the video. She said her captors, whom she called the mujahedeen, had treated her very well — "like a guest" — and that she thought the "mujahedeen are the ones who will win in the end in this war."

It was not possible to reach Carroll to ask her whether she actually held any of the views expressed. Her father told the Monitor that his daughter's abductors told her she would have to make a video praising her captors and attacking the United States to secure her freedom.

Her captors "obviously wanted maximum propaganda value in the U.S.," Jim Carroll told the Monitor. "After listening to them for three months she already knew exactly what they wanted her to say, so she gave it to them with appropriate acting to make it look convincing."