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Kidnapped U.S. Journalist Shown In New Video
February 09, 2006
This time, footage of Jill Carroll was shown on a private Kuwaiti television station (file photo) (epa)
Carroll, wearing a headscarf, appealed for help in securing her release.
The 28-year-old journalist, who was kidnapped in Iraq on 7 January, had last appeared in a video aired on the Arabic-language television station, Al-Jazeera, on 30 January, in which she tearfully appealed to fellow Americans to press for the release of Iraqi women held by U.S.-led forces.
Carroll, a freelance journalist working for the “Christian Science Monitor,” was abducted in the Iraqi capital Baghdad by militants who also killed her Iraqi interpreter.
Al-Jazeera also aired a video showing Carroll on 17 January and said her abductors threatened to kill her if their demand was not met but did not name the group that kidnapped her.
(Reuters, AP)