Christian Science Monitor
The silent 40-second video of
Jill Carroll aired Monday on Al Jazeera. The newscaster says that Carroll is appealing to the US military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to release all Iraqi women prisoners, and that this "would help in winning her release." Monitor Editor
Richard Bergenheim says: "Anyone with a heart will feel distressed that an innocent woman like Jill Carroll would be treated in the manner shown in the latest video." (Related Washington Post
story.)