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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
 Jill Carroll, a freelance journalist from the Unites States, who was held hostage by an Iraqi group for aljost three months was freed unharmed last Thursday.
Carroll, who freelanced for the Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped on January 7 while leaving a Sunni politician’s office. Her whereabouts was unknown until she appeared at the Iraqi Islamic Party office in western Baghdad, after a car had dropped her off.
In an interview after her release Carroll said she did not know what led to her release. She also said that she had not been mistreated or abused by her kidnappers. However, on arriving in Germany on her way back to the U.S. Carroll was reported to have angrily disavowed that statement and others made during her captivity. She said her captors forced her to participate in a propaganda video on her last night in captivity and told her that she would have been released if she cooperated with them. She agreed to do this since she was living in a threatening environment, under her kidnappers control and wanted to go home alive.
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