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AsHLEY WEYLER STAFF WRIIBR ARw723@CABRINI.EDU

Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old freelance journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, came home April 2 to the United States after being freed by her Iraqi kidnappers on Thursday March 30. She was in captivity for 82 days.

According to the CSM, Carroll said, "To be able to step outside anytime, to feel the sun directly on your face, to see the whole sky. These are luxuries that we just don't appreciate every day."

After Carroll's commercial flight to Logan International Airport in Boston, MA touched down, she was taken in a limou- before the actual fighting began to get to know the region better.

On Jan. 7, 2006, Carroll was kidnapped in Baghdad, while her translator, Allan Enwiya, was killed. The driver of the vehicle escaped.

During her captivity, Carroll was forced to record several tapes denouncing the American presence in Iraq and praising the Iraqi insurgency. In a statement by Carroll issued by the CSM, she said, "Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not. The people who kidnapped me and murdered Allan Enwiya are criminals, at best. They robbed Allan of his