By: E&P Staff Several hours after the release of journalist Jill Carroll in Baghdad today, the shadowy group that claims to have abducted her, the Vengeance Brigade, released a video in which she praised her captors and denounced President Bush and the U.S. war effort.
It is not known if her statements were coerced, but she made them while a captive, under obviously trying conditions.
She said of Bush, "He needs to stop this war. He knows this war is wrong."
Replying to questions in the nine-minute video, Carroll said, according to a Washington Post account, that the insurgents are "more clever" and "better at what they do" than U.S. troops. She said the fact that U.S. forces were unable to find her "makes very clear that the mujaheddin are the ones who will win in the end in this war."
Carroll also said she felt "guilty" she was about to be released while Iraqi women were still being held by U.S. forces, "so I can't be happy totally for my freedom," she said, according to the Post.
After questioning Carroll, the off-camera captor read a statement in Arabic in which he announced her release, although it cannot be confirmed when this was done.
"We are releasing this reporter today after the American government agreed to some of our conditions, by releasing some of our women in prison," he said, according to a translation by the Washington-based SITE Institute.
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