Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq Is Released

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:23 p.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago, was released Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Garen spoke to Al-Jazeera television, confirming he was freed.

Garen was interviewed by telephone by the station moments after an aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said the American had been released.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Missing-Journalist.html


http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-green0820,0,4939504.story?coll=nyc-homepage-headlines

[Nambe]

1. I am so happy for him and his family.

The kidnappers are being pretty stupid just taking anybody they can get. Not to say that kidnapping is smart.

[Dover]

2. He had been working on a documentary about Iraq's looted treasures

according to this Newsweek article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5785074/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/

...Earlier this month American journalist Micah Garen was abducted while working on a documentary about efforts to protect Iraq's treasures. His captors have threatened to behead him.