Stories by Peter Grier
Peter Grier is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor.
While the debate over "illegal" immigration rages, hard-working second-generation immigrants' financial progress slows.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
Nearly five months on, what's to be learned from Jill Carroll's kidnapping and release?
Posted on Aug 29, 2006
Jill's two guards watch cartoons and the Koran channel. But tension grows as she becomes more desperate.
Posted on Aug 24, 2006
Five Iraqi women are released, but Jill must make another video.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006
After the Feb. 22 shrine bombing in Samara, killing Shiites became more important than killing Americans -- or guarding Jill.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006
Jill agrees to study Islam, but realizes it's a mistake, so she hatches a plan to escape.
Posted on Aug 22, 2006
Carroll discovers that her kidnappers are hardcore Islamic militants.
Posted on Aug 22, 2006
Jill learns that her abductors may have imprisoned another female journalist, and is forced to make a hostage video showing that her life is at risk.
Posted on Aug 17, 2006
As Jill's parents make a televised plea, she learns about the zeal of women and children in the Iraqi insurgency.
Posted on Aug 17, 2006
Soldiers come so close to where she is being held on the first night of her captivity that Jill's captors accuse her of hiding a homing device.
Posted on Aug 16, 2006
January 7, 2006, promised to be an easy Saturday in Iraq for Jill Carroll. Instead, it was the first of her 82 days in captivity.
Posted on Aug 16, 2006
