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Hostage Jill Carroll Freed
Baghdad, 30 March (AKI) - US freelance journalist Jill Carroll has been released in Iraq after being held hostage since 7 January. Carroll's release came a day after an appeal made by her twin sister Katie on pan Arab network al-Arabiya. Carroll was working for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq. "She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine," confirmed David Cook, a Monitor editor in Washington. Details of how and when she was released have not been provided. In her message broadcast Wednesday Katie Caroll said: "There is no one I hold closer to my heart than my sister, and I am deeply worried wondering how she is being treated" The journalist was pulled from her car on 7 January and her interpreter was killed. She had been due that day to interview Adnan al-Dulaimi, the leader of a Sunni political grouping. Jill Carroll's captors had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be killed if that didn't happen. However that date passed with no further word about her welfare.
Posted by: Steve 2006-03-30 |
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