Jill Carroll Released and in Safe Hands

On Saturday, Jill Carroll, the journalist for the Christian Science Monitor and former hostage, landed in Ramstein Air Base, in Germany. Jill had been a hostage for 82 days, she was taken prisoner on January 7, in western Baghdad by insurgents who killed her Iraqi translator. Jill was released on Thursday, infront of an office of the Islamic Party, from there she was taken by the U.S. military, to a stronghold in Baghdad, called the Green Zone, at first Jill did not want to go to the Green zone because her kidnappers threatened her before she was released saying that she might be killed if she talked to Americans or went to the Green Zone, because insurgents had ifiltrated the Green Zone. According to the kidnappers, the only reason Jill was released was that America complied with there demands that they made on Feb. 26, calling for all female prisoners to be released. Although the kidnappers say America gave in to their demands, Washington, said that they did not make any deals with the kidnappers, and did not give in to their demands. But five female prisoners were released later on after the demands had been given, but still Washington denies that there was a connection between these events.Carroll was glad when she was released, on her arrival, she was said to be all smiles, she is however in a emotionally fragile state of being. She is expected to arrive in Boston, late Sunday morning.