Jill Carroll update

February 6, 2006 11:00 PM

CSMonitor's Jill Carroll updateAs there isn't really much news about Jill Carroll, this blog has become mainly about the issues surrounding the Carroll abduction. What is Islam's perspective on foreigners? How does rampant kidnapping effect journalists? The last 'update' is about a poster of Carroll hung from Rome's city hall. Which makes me think two things: there isn't much news about Carroll's situation; why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?
posted by raaka (7 comments total)

This means war, I guess.
posted by Citizen Premier at 12:30 AM on February 7, 2006

I'm curious how this will play out. I was startled to see a large (and growing) number of "she's in cahoots with her kidnappers" threads on rightwing blogs lately.
posted by RavinDave at 1:35 AM on February 7, 2006

why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?

why do you hate super bowl XV?
posted by quonsar at 4:14 AM on February 7, 2006

why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?

Not in our culture. We tie yellow ribbons around old oak trees.

Anyone weary of that standard (I know I am) is, of course, free to start a new trend. Call your alderman.
posted by IndigoJones at 4:45 AM on February 7, 2006

"why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?"

it costs to much, and we need that money for the war.
posted by tarantula at 4:49 AM on February 7, 2006

Back in the day of embassy takeover in Teheran, George Plimpton wrote an article in Harpers suggesting that instead of obsessing over the hostages, what we ought to have done was to put a hundred thousand dollars (or some such real money figure) each into tax free trust funds which they could enjoy once released. The thinking was that the student captors would be driven crazy by the notion of wasting day after day nursemaiding a bunch of budding millionaires while they were getting incompletes on their college records.

Simpler times.
posted by IndigoJones at 5:16 AM on February 7, 2006

raaka, do you have a poster of Carroll hanging in your home? If not, why the hell not??????!!!!1l|11one1!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:46 AM on February 7, 2006