By: The Associated Press and CBS News American journalist Jill Carroll, released by her Iraqi captors after 82 days, will begin her journey home as soon as possible, her editor at The Christian Science Monitor said Friday.
The 28-year-old reporter is "emotionally fragile" but doing well after her Thursday release, said Richard Bergenheim, editor of the Boston-based newspaper.
She is secure inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, preparing to return home, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports. Carroll appeared remarkably composed and healthy despite her weeks of captivity, Logan said.
She has agreed to be debriefed this morning, Logan says, and her closest friend and colleague in Baghdad, Scott Peterson, tells CBS News 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," Bergenheim said in a television interview. "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 Thursday, after being released.
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, Illinois, home. As CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers notes, she has been celebrating her daughter's release in private.
When asked how great a day the day of her release was, Peter Alonzi, Carroll's cousin said, "Christmas pales. I mean, it's just tremendous."
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