FBI wanted Jill Carroll's dad to shake fist at captors, call them thugs?

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CNN: A father appeals for his daughter's life
Hostage: The Jill Carroll story, Part 4
Thursday, August 17, 2006

(Editor's note: The following is a content summary of Part 4 of the Jill Carroll series on The Christian Science Monitor.)

Exhausted, Jim Carroll walked the streets of Washington, headed back to his hotel. He'd hardly eaten all day, so he ducked into a bar for dinner. He hadn't been there long when his cell phone rang. It was the FBI. They wanted to know the family's decision -- a 72-hour deadline issued by the kidnappers was nearing.

This wasn't going to be pleasant. "We're not going your way," Jim told his FBI contact. "We're going to go with the sympathy statement."...

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The FBI wanted the father -- him -- to shake his fist, in essence; to go on TV and address the men who held Jill as murderers and thugs. Jill's colleagues at The Christian Science Monitor's Baghdad office thought that would misfire in the Middle East. They said the words should reflect how much Jill's family loved and missed her....

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Alone in the Al Jazeera television studio, Jim Carroll stared at the camera, aware that at any moment it would switch on and broadcast his image around the world

"I want to speak directly to the men holding my daughter Jill because they also may be fathers like me," he said....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/17/carroll.part.4/index.html

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1. Did they ask him to say "Bring it ON!" , too?