Jill Carroll's Homecoming

Christian Science Monitor photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman, left, photographs former Iraq hostage Jill Carroll as she addresses the newsroom of The Christian Science Monitor for the first time following her release in Iraq , Monday April 3, 2006 in Boston, as members of Carrol's family look on.

A motorcade carrying Jill Carroll, the U.S. journalist held hostage for 82 days in Iraq, leaves Logan Airport in Boston on Sunday, April 2, 2006. The 28-year-old journalist from the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor was accompanied on the Lufthansa flight by a Monitor colleague.

U.S. journalist Jill Carroll walks away after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein, Germany, on Saturday, April 1, 2006. Carroll was a hostage in Iraq for 82 days before being released on March 30. Carroll was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator.

U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, center bottom, leaves a C-17 Globemaster and is welcomed by Base Commander Col. Kurt Lohide, second left, after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein, Germany, on Saturday, April 1, 2006. The 28-year-old was a hostage in Iraq for 82 days before she was released on March 30.

U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, left, is welcomed by Base Commander Col. Kurt Lohide after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein, Germany, on Saturday, April 1, 2006. Carroll was a hostage in Iraq for 82 days before she was released on March 30.

Jill Carroll, left, is welcomed by Base Commander Col. Kurt Lohide after she landed at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, on Saturday, April 1, 2006. Carroll, a freelance journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days before her release on March 30.