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04/01/2006:

"Insurgents will win, says hostage"

US AUTHORITIES in Iraq guarded freed hostage Jill Carroll overnight after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and published a video showing her praising them.

Insurgents, meanwhile, carried out a series of attacks killing eight people, five of them from one Shiite family.
US officials declined to say when the 28-year-old freelance journalist would go home to the United States.

Video footage posted on the Internet late Thursday showed Ms Carroll in an interview with her kidnappers before her release in which she praised Iraq's insurgents and even predicted their victory.

The circumstances under which she spoke were unclear.

"I think the mujahedeen are very smart and even with all the technology and all the people that the American army has here, they still are better at knowing how to live and work here, more clever," Ms Carroll said in response to a question.

Asked what she meant, Ms Carroll, who was snatched from a Baghdad street on January 7, answered: "It makes very clear that the mujahedeen are the ones that will win in the end."
heraldsun.news.com

Off with her head.