U.S.-led forces captured two men believed to be senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including one suspected of planning the 2006 kidnapping of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, a military statement said.
A U.S. military commander said Thursday that an al Qaeda in Iraq militant believed to be involved in last year's kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed.
On April 2, 2006, a white Lufthansa 747 with the designation "Hamburg" written on its side taxied up to a gate at Boston's Logan Airport. At 12:22 p.m., Jill Carroll stepped off the plane and onto U.S. soil.
One glance at an unusual door to a house west of Falluja launched U.S. troops on a hunt that led to the capture of four men suspected of kidnapping Jill Carroll, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
This is the text of journalist Jill Carroll's statement from Ramstein Airbase in Germany as it appeared Saturday on The Christian Science Monitor Web site:
Former hostage Jill Carroll said Saturday that she did not willingly make a video in which she praises Iraq's insurgents and said in a statement that she "abhor(s) all who kidnap."
American journalist Jill Carroll, who was released this week after being held hostage in Iraq for almost three months, has slammed the United States and praised Iraqi insurgents in a video posted on an Islamist Web site.
The release Thursday of American journalist Jill Carroll nearly three months after her kidnapping in Baghdad elicited joy from family, friends and officials as well as expressions of hope for the release of other hostages in Iraq:
U.S.-led forces captured two men believed to be senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including one suspected of planning the 2006 kidnapping of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, a military statement said.
A U.S. military commander said Thursday that an al Qaeda in Iraq militant believed to be involved in last year's kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed.
On April 2, 2006, a white Lufthansa 747 with the designation "Hamburg" written on its side taxied up to a gate at Boston's Logan Airport. At 12:22 p.m., Jill Carroll stepped off the plane and onto U.S. soil.
One glance at an unusual door to a house west of Falluja launched U.S. troops on a hunt that led to the capture of four men suspected of kidnapping Jill Carroll, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
This is the text of journalist Jill Carroll's statement from Ramstein Airbase in Germany as it appeared Saturday on The Christian Science Monitor Web site:
Former hostage Jill Carroll said Saturday that she did not willingly make a video in which she praises Iraq's insurgents and said in a statement that she "abhor(s) all who kidnap."
American journalist Jill Carroll, who was released this week after being held hostage in Iraq for almost three months, has slammed the United States and praised Iraqi insurgents in a video posted on an Islamist Web site.
The release Thursday of American journalist Jill Carroll nearly three months after her kidnapping in Baghdad elicited joy from family, friends and officials as well as expressions of hope for the release of other hostages in Iraq:
Nearly three months after she was abducted in Baghdad, American journalist Jill Carroll walked into the office of a Sunni Arab political party Thursday and asked if she could call the U.S. Embassy, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party said.
The twin sister of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll pleaded Wednesday for her captors to let her go and for anyone who has knowledge of her whereabouts to share it with authorities.
The rescue of three Western aid workers in Iraq raised hopes among friends and family of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll, who has been missing for 11 weeks.
Iraqi officials believe kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and they are working toward her release, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Monday.
An Iraqi television station has begun airing announcements seeking the release of Christian Science Monitor freelance journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in early January.
Citing sources close to the kidnappers, Alrai Television in Kuwait reported Friday that U.S. journalist Jill Carroll's kidnappers set "a final deadline of February 26" for their demands to be met.
With the release of certified results in last month's parliamentary elections, Iraqi officials face renewed pressure to form a new government amid a fresh outbreak of apparent sectarian violence Friday.
Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video broadcast on Kuwaiti television Thursday, urging the U.S. government to meet her kidnappers' demands.
A day after a video of a U.S. journalist held hostage in Iraq aired on Al-Jazeera, a journalists' organization said it plans to work with the Arabic-language media to help gain Jill Carroll's release.
In new footage aired Monday on an Arabic-language news network, an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq urged Americans to plead for the release of female Iraqi prisoners to help secure her release, the network said.
The U.S. military in Iraq released five female detainees Thursday after determining they weren't security threats, an action that could affect the fate of abducted U.S. journalist Jill Carroll.
An Iraqi official said Tuesday that five female prisoners in U.S. custody are to be released in two days -- a move that would partially meet the demands of militants who abducted U.S. journalist Jill Carroll.
Representatives from an American Muslim group are in Iraq to join efforts to free U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped two weeks ago in Baghdad.
Dozens of journalists and Western civilians have been kidnapped in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion, but few victims have commanded the Muslim sympathy that freelance writer Jill Carroll has garnered.
At least 15 people were killed and 46 others wounded Thursday when near-simultaneous car and suicide bombings struck a busy commercial district in central Baghdad, an official with the city's emergency police said.
Mary Beth Carroll, the mother of abducted journalist Jill Carroll, urged the woman's captors Thursday to release her daughter, saying "they've picked the wrong person."
With the kidnappers' Friday deadline looming, the newspaper for which abducted American journalist Jill Carroll works said Wednesday that it is "availing itself of every option we can think of to secure her release."
An American journalist's kidnappers threatened to kill her unless the United States releases all female Iraqi prisoners within 72 hours, the Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera said after it aired a video showing her Tuesday.
A freelance writer on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped Saturday in western Baghdad, and her Iraqi interpreter was killed, the newspaper said Monday.
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