Iraq ? Jill Carroll, described as “emotionally fragile,” went reluctantly to Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone – the place her captors had warned her was infiltrated with insurgents – and spent Friday in seclusion, recovering from 82 days of captivity.

In a video posted on an Islamist Web site and recorded by her captors before she was freed, the 28-year-old freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor – dropped off Thursday outside the offices of a Sunni political party – spoke out against the U.S. military presence.

“Tens of thousands … have lost their lives here because of the occupation,” she said in the video. “I think Americans need to think about that and realize day-to-day how difficult life is here.”

The Monitor’s editor, Richard Bergenheim, said Carroll’s parents, who spoke with her about the video, told him it was “conducted under duress.”

Carroll was flying to Germany and expected to arrive this morning at Ramstein Air Base near Landstuhl.