Jill Carroll is the American journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq and later released. If you haven't read her story, you need to:

The Jill Carroll Story, Part 1: The Kidnapping
Jill Carroll's Story, Part 2: A Spy With a Homing Device
Jill Carroll's Story, Part 3: The First Hostage Video
The Jill Carroll Story, Part 4: Mother as Suicide Bomber
The Jill Carroll Story, Part 5: An Insurgency Leader?
Jill Carroll's Story, Part 6: Reciting Koranic Verses
Jill Carroll's Story, Part 7: False Hopes
The Jill Carroll Story, Part 8: A New Enemy
Jill Carroll's Story, Part 9: The Muj Brothers

Scary stuff.