"Larry King Live"
Former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief
Rajiv Chandrasekaran calls kidnapped reporter
Jill Carroll "a smart, resourceful, courageous woman." He tells
Larry King: "I really do continue to be very optimistic here. ...I do feel that she's conveying her feelings, her knowledge of Iraq, her commitment to the story to her captors. ... I think Jill is going to be the most potent force for her release as they, as her captors understand who she really is and understand that they've chosen the wrong woman here." (
Detroit Free Press and
New York Times stories on the latest Carroll videotape.)
