Stockholm Syndrome?

"Interview" of Jill Carroll. You decide.

A video posted on the internet, which could not be independently verified, showed Ms Carroll in an interview apparently conducted by her captors before they released her.

"Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time," a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English.

"Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might find me, they might find a way to know where I am and come get me," she answered.

"Why did not they save you?" asked the interviewer.

"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," she said

"Does this mean something to you?" the man questioning her asked.

"It makes very clear that the mujahedeen are the ones that will win in the end," Ms Carroll said in the video.

At the end of the eight-and-a-half minute tape, the same man read out a statement in Arabic.

"The mujahedeen in the land of the two rivers announce the liberation of the journalist Jill Carroll... after the US forces and the CIA failed to find her making their ineptitude obvious to the whole world," he said.

"We liberate this journalist today after the American government met some of our demands by releasing some of our women prisoners."

Not that I'd give Ms. Carroll any credit as a reliable analyst of the Iraqi situation, but this does sniff a bit of Stokholm Syndrome. I've never much believed in SS, but sometimes I wonder. Especially if the person may have been predisposed to supporting their captors in the first place.

Though seeing that the "interview" was probably by her captors, I should give her the benefit of the doubt that her remarks were merely for self-preservation.

I found the link in an entry at the Belmont Club. Read their article on a broader perspective of the situation overall.