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04/04/2006:

"Jill Carroll rounds on critics"

...In her first hours of freedom, Carroll and the Monitor were forced to counter allegations by conservative bloggers that she had betrayed a sympathy for her kidnappers.

The charge was given currency by the New York Times, which suggested Carroll had come to identify with her abductors' aims.

In a statement posted on the Monitor website on Saturday, Carroll dismissed any suggestion she shared the aims of her kidnappers: "Let me be clear: I abhor all who kidnap and murder civilians, and my captors are clearly guilty of both crimes."

...On Saturday, Carroll also disavowed an interview granted to Iraqi television immediately after she was freed in which she said she was never threatened by the kidnappers. "In fact, I was threatened many times," she said. "Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not."
guardian.co.uk

All she said was that the insurgency will win: you don't need a gun to your head to say that, just some common sense.