in that context, and not as her true beliefs. Return home On April 2, Carroll returned to Boston, where she was greeted at the airport by her editor Richard Bergenheim and whisked off to a reunion with her family. On the flight, she said "I finally feel like I am alive again. I feel so good. To be able to step outside anytime, to feel the sun directly on your face—to see the whole sky. These are luxuries that we just don't appreciate every day." In August 2006, the newspaper announced that she would tell her story of living with the captives in an 11-part series starting on August 13. The series tells about life among the mujahideen. Capture of militants In the fall of 2006, United States Marines arrested three of Carroll's captors, which led them to a fourth who was also arrested. Roughly two years later, on August 24, 2008, the United States military announced that on August 11 they captured Al-Qaeda militant Salim Abdallah Ashur al-Shujayri (aka Abu Uthman) in Baghdad, a man believed to be the planner behind Carroll's kidnapping. Post release In 2006, Carroll participated in a fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she researched the decline of foreign news bureaus in the wake of changes in the newspaper industry. She was given the Courage in Journalism Award in 2006 by the International Women's Media Foundation. On August 19, 2008 it was announced that Carroll had started recruit training as a firefighter with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. See also List of kidnappings List of solved missing person cases References External links Official Website of the Christian Science Monitor Carroll, Jill. "Politics, Mesopotamian Style", U.S. News & World Report. 2006-01-09 edition. Retrieved 2006-01-23. Carroll, Jill. "Violence threatens Iraqi coalition", Christian Science Monitor. 2006-01-06 edition. Retrieved 2006-01-23. Carroll, Jill and Murphy, Dan. "America's waning clout in Iraq", Christian Science Monitor. 2006-01-05 edition. Retrieved 2006-01-23. Carroll, Jill. "Shiites, Kurds forge ahead", Christian Science Monitor. 2005-12-30 edition. Retrieved 2006-01-23. Carroll, Jill. Notebook: Iraq blog, Christian Science Monitor. (occasionally filed by Jill Carroll). Retrieved 2006-02-16. "Abductors threaten to kill American journalist", MSNBC. 2006-01-17. Retrieved 2006-01-17. Updated 2006-01-20 Peterson, Scott. "Reporter abducted in Iraq", Christian Science Monitor. 2006-01-10 edition. Retrieved 2006-01-17. "Iraq: Suspects in Carroll kidnapping arrested", Adnkronos International. January 24, 2006. Retrieved January 24, 2006. "Five Iraqi women