{"id":131,"date":"2006-03-30T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=131"},"modified":"2006-03-30T07:29:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T15:29:30","slug":"good-news-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/good-news-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank God her life was spared! (I wonder what she plans to do with it.)<\/p>\n

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If you want to read more of the story<\/a> than I have here, go ahead.<\/p>\n

American journalist Jill Carroll was freed in Baghdad on Thursday, nearly three months after being kidnapped in the city.<\/p>\n

“I’m just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family,” Carroll, wearing a headscarf, told Baghdad Television, adding she had had no warning she was being freed.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

That’s very good news. (I also wonder what she plans to do with that headscarf.)<\/p>\n

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Another tidbit from the story:<\/p>\n

[Islamic] Party leader Hashemi offered her a Koran at the end of her brief television interview and, speaking in English, said: “Don’t forget the Iraqi people.”<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n

“Here’s the book being used to justify (and explain?) the kidnappings, murders, riots, and mayhem going on.” No, I’m sure he wouldn’t say that. But that “Don’t forget the Iraqi people” was very good. Don’t blame the people as a whole. (I’m sure she won’t forget the kidnappers either.)<\/p>\n

Hashemi said Islamic principles had ensured her good treatment.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Come again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank God her life was spared! (I wonder what she plans to do with it.) If you want to read more of the story than I have here, go ahead. American journalist Jill Carroll was freed in Baghdad on Thursday, nearly three months after being kidnapped in the city. “I’m just happy to be free. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}