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...military announced Wednesday that four Iraqis suspected of involvement in her kidnapping had been arrested. At a press briefing, the top military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, showed pictures of houses in insurgent strongholds between Fallujah and Baghdad that officials believe were used to hide the journalist. Caldwell did not specify when exactly the arrests occurred, but another U.S. official, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, tells TIME the suspects were detained in mid- to late May, not two months after Carroll was recovered. He says the story was withheld to give the military enough time to investigate possible connections...
...Science Monitor begins publishing Carroll's 11-part chronicle of her abduction and detention - the first installment will be available on the paper's website Sunday night. With the help of Monitor senior writer Peter Grier, who offers a contextual narrative of what was happening in Boston, Washington and Baghdad while she was shuffled from safe house to safe house, Carroll recounts the hardship and, often, the irony of her captivity: "How do you channel-surf with the mujahedeen?" she writes at one point. Dave Cook, the Monitor?s D.C. bureau chief who has acted as Carroll's spokesperson, says...
...There are other ways to keep ourselves amused at the TIME house. Alcohol is readily available in Baghdad, even though extremist Islamic groups have recently bombed some booze shops, forcing others to go underground. Friends and family are always sending care packages full of DVDs, music, books and magazines - even video-game software. Our neighborhood cable guy has hooked us up to dozens of channels, which means I can watch Letterman as I nod off to sleep...
...truth what I miss most is not home entertainment, it's home life. In the past four years, my wife Bipasha and I have rarely been on the same continent at the same time - she works in Singapore, and I shuttle between Baghdad and New York City. Somehow, the distance feels greater when I'm in Iraq. If it's difficult for me, it's doubly so for her, knowing that I'm constantly in harm's way. Bipasha jokes that her coping mechanism is a voodoo doll bearing a remarkable likeness to my boss, which she pokes with...
...month - she will light a candle at her end, and I will play some appropriately mushy music on iTunes. (Hey, war correspondents can be romantic too.) If I try very hard, I can fool myself into believing that I'm not in the most dangerous place on earth. In Baghdad, a little self-delusion can help keep you sane...