17 ordspråk av Joe Carroll
Joe Carroll
The Guardian and the British Embassy are doing their work. They've got a lot of people on the ground to work on this,
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But we kind of knew, given the set-up there, that there must be danger for all journalists working there.
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Companies that give a million to (the high-profile) campaign don't add to what their normal giving is, ... They cut back (with) local charities. It's been four years in a row now. I joke that God's punishing me.
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He knew we were worried, but he used to reassure us and say that it was not as dangerous as people outside think,
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He put me in the boot of his car and drove me alone and dropped me in the middle of Baghdad,
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He said if you observed basic rules and security you would be OK. We knew he was playing it down for our sake and there was obvious danger.
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He told me that he had been released, that he was perfectly OK and in an Iraqi government compound having a beer.
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He went out of his way I think to reassure us that he wasn't in danger and that he was in the hotel a lot. And then he had two drivers and he had two interpreters, so he himself used to play it down,
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I am currently sitting in a house in Baghdad which has turned on its generator now for the family here to watch Saddam, ... (Their) son was abducted and executed by Saddam's forces. It is still a very emotional feeling for them.
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I am utterly delighted for Rory Carroll and his family.
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I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.
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I thought first when he was calling that maybe his captors were allowing him to make one call from his cell or something.
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I'm currently sitting in a house in Baghdad which has turned on its generator now for the family here to watch Saddam.
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My fear was that I would be sold on to the Sunni or Islamist groups,
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There's no such thing as disability insurance for a musician.
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