NYTs: Discrediting Jill Carroll
“I feel guilty. I also feel that it just shows that the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honorable fight, a good fight. While the Americans are here, the occupying forces, you know, treating the people in a very, very bad way. So I can't be happy totally for my freedom because there are people still suffering in prisons, in very difficult situations.”
Jill Carroll.
“It's a form of brainwashing in a deprived state where victims emotionally bond with the captors in order to survive. People can feel helpless and hopeless, and any small act of kindness — not killing her, giving her food, letting her have a shower — can lead to bonding with the captor.”
Dr. Alan Manevitz, a psychiatrist and trauma expert,
Kirk Semple, Dexter Filkins, “Reporter Freed in Iraq, 3 Months After Abduction,”
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