Carroll Debriefed

This creepy transcript from ABC News of a pre-release interview with Jill Carroll helps explain some things. The release was obviously designed as a propaganda weapon to get Carroll to publicly back the Mujahideen - and get their message across. She does so in the tape; and she was very careful not to say anything else in her first debriefing after her captivity. Her release may also have been a way to bolster Sunni negotiations with Shiites in the formation of a national unity government. I don't know any more about Carroll, except the glowing references from those people who knew her well before the kidnapping. We will find out more in due course. But it's wise not to jump to conclusions about what someone says when they have a gun even metaphorically pointed in their back. Give her freedom and time. And be glad she is alive.

(Photo: Baghdad TV/APTN)