Kidnapping

Natasha has good links to people who know Jill Carroll. This has really hit me in the gut. At first part of me wondered if it was the same person I met over the summer, even though the likelihood that there would be two young reporters in Iraq with Cairo connections named Jill who had that same general physical appearance were small. But she was so incredibly friendly and outgoing that even my brief and loose acquaintance was enough to provoke anxiety about her fate. Here's hoping for the best, because that's pretty much all I can do.