MSNBC Breaking: American hostage Jill Carroll freed in Iraq

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12077471/

BREAKING NEWS

Updated: 6:30 a.m. ET March 30, 2006
WASHINGTON - American newspaper reporter Jill Carroll has been released after several months of captivity in Iraq, an editor at her newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, said Thursday.
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Thursday, March 30, 2006; 6:26 AM

American journalist Jill Carroll, who had been held hostage by insurgents in Iraq, was freed Thursday in Baghdad after nearly three months in captivity.

Carroll, 28, was turned over to an Iraqi political party and seen by Washington Post reporters.

The freelance journalist, who worked for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped Jan. 7 by gunmen in Baghdad as she was being driven to an interview. Her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, 32, was killed in the encounter.

Her captors identified themselves as the Vengeance Brigade, a group that had not surfaced before Carroll's abduction. On. Jan. 17 the brigade released a video in which it threatened to kill her in three days unless U.S. authorities released all female detainees in Iraq. A second video, aired on Jan. 30, showed Carroll in a head scarf, sobbing, but her voice was not heard.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30454463.htm

Source: Reuters

ROME, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, held hostage in Iraq since Jan. 7, has been freed, Italy's ANSA news agency said on Thursday.
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