Christian Science Monitor staff editor Jill Carroll is shown in the Monitor newsroom Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 in Boston. Five months after she was released by her Iraqi captors, Carroll is describing the terror she felt during her 82-day ordeal. At one point, Carroll says she feared she was about to be beheaded and asked her captors to shoot her instead.
An empty kitchen of a house is seen where Jill Carroll is thought to have been held, in a rural area outside a U.S. air base, in Taqqadum, Iraq, Friday, May 19, 2006. Marines said a May 19 operation about 2 miles outside the Taqqadum logistics hub netted the first of four Iraqis accused of kidnapping Carroll. U.S. officials believe Carroll was held in the suspects's residence and at least three other homes.
Tariq al-Hashemi, Secretary General of the Iraqi Islamic Party, gives American reporter Jill Carroll, right, a gift Thursday, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Carroll was set free Thursday, police said, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator.
A "Free Jill" poster is seen on the door of the University of Massachusetts journalism department office in Amherst, Mass., and has been edited to read "Jill is Free" Thursday, March 30, 2006, after Jill Carroll was freed in Baghdad, Iraq. Carroll, who grew in Michigan, received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts in 1999.
American reporter Jill Carroll, 28, speaks during an interview with APTV after her release, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Carroll was set free nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya by an unknown group, police said, and was later turned over to Americans in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
Workers remove the poster of kidnapped American reporter Jill Carroll from from a balcony at Rome's City Hall following her release March 30, 2006. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in a brief interview with Baghdad television, which is operated by the Iraqi Islamic Party.
American reporter Jill Carroll speaks during an interview after her release, Thursday, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad. Carroll was set free Thursday, police said, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. Her editor said she was "fine." Carroll, 28, was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya, western Baghdad, by an unknown group.
Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old freelance reporter on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor was seized Jan. 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, and freed Thursday, March 30, 2006.
A video of journalist Jill Carroll, who is shown appealing for her life. The 22-second tape was aired Feb. 9, 2006, on Kuwaiti TV. In a calm voice, Carroll urges supporters to win her release "as quickly as possible." There were three videotapes of the 28-year-old freelance reporter since she was kidnapped in Baghdad.
People gather on the Human Rights square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Feb. 7, 2006, during a demonstration for the release of reporter Jill Carroll organized by 'Reporters without Borders.' On Feb. 9, Carroll reportedly appeared in a video dated Feb. 2, that aired on a private Kuwaiti TV channel appealing for her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release.
French actress Juliette Binoche takes part in a demonstration organized by 'Reporters without Borders', and held on the Human Rights square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2006, to support American reporter Jill Carroll who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7.
A pigeon flies near a poster showing Jill Carroll, the American journalist kidnapped in Iraq, outside Rome's city hall, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006.
Two of the five women released from a detention center are seen in the back of a vehicle going to their homes, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Part of a release of 419 detained Iraqis, five Iraqi women were released, a move demanded by the kidnappers of American reporter Jill Carroll to spare her life. A U.S. official said the release had nothing to do with the kidnappers' demand.
Photos of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll are seen during a press conference organized by Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders at the Grande Mosquee in Paris, Friday, Jan. 20, 2006. Organizers and participants called for the release of the 28-year-old freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who was kidnapped Jan. 7, 2006, in Baghdad.
Florence Aubenas, a former French hostage held in Iraq, speaks to the media during a press conference organized by Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders at the Grande Mosquee in Paris, Jan. 20, 2006. The group called for the release of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, a 28-year old freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who was kidnapped Jan. 7 in Baghdad.
Prominent Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi calls for the release of American journalist Jill Carroll during a press conference, Friday, Jan. 20, 2006, in Baghdad. Al-Dulaimi urged U.S. and Iraqi forces to stop arresting Iraqi women as a deadline set by Carroll's kidnappers drew near.
Corey Saylor, the Council of American-Islamic Relations' government affairs director, left, and Nihad Awad, the national executive director of CAIR, speak during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2005. The American Muslim activists urged the immediate release of Jill Carroll, the reporter with the Christian Science Monitor whose life has been threatened by her kidnappers in Iraq.
Jill Carroll, 28, a freelancer for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 7, 2006. Her mother made an appeal for her release on Jan. 19, 2006. "I, her father and her sister are appealing directly to her captors to release this young woman who has worked so hard to show the sufferings of Iraqis to the world," said Mary Beth Carroll.
American reporter Jill Carroll, 28, appears in a silent 20-second video aired Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006, by Al-Jazeera television, which said her abductors gave the United States 72 hours to free female prisoners in Iraq or she would be killed.
Freelance writer Jill Carroll is shown in a Sept. 5, 2005, photo provided by the Christian Science Monitor. An Arab television channel aired a silent 20-second videotape Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 of Carroll, who has been held hostage in Iraq since Jan. 7, and said an accompanying message gave the United States 72 hours to free female prisoners in Iraq or the journalist would be killed.