I’ve been reading the Jill Carroll story the last few days here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p01s01-woiq.html
(Warning: the csmonitor site is slow to load – probably due to all the folks trying to read that article)
Pretty engrossing for me. If you don’t know who she is, she is a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days.