New Video of Jill Carroll, kidnapped CSM reporter
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:58 pm
Arab TV network Al-Jazeera airs what it says is new video of kidnapped U.S. hostage in Iraq, Jill Carroll.
Al-Jazeera aired a new videotape Monday of kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, showing her wearing a veil and weeping. The video had no sound, but the station said she appealed for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.
Carroll is visibly crying in the video and wears a conservative Islamic veil as she speaks to the camera. The footage has a time signature with the date Jan. 28.
The al-Jazeera newscaster said Carroll appeals to the U.S. military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to release all women in their prisons and that this "would help in winning her release."
Armed men abducted Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, on Jan. 7 in Baghdad and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women prisoners were released.
The U.S. military said Thursday it would release five Iraqi women detainees. A U.S. official said the release had nothing to do with the kidnappers' demand.
Al-Jazeera aired a new videotape Monday of kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, showing her wearing a veil and weeping. The video had no sound, but the station said she appealed for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.
Carroll is visibly crying in the video and wears a conservative Islamic veil as she speaks to the camera. The footage has a time signature with the date Jan. 28.
The al-Jazeera newscaster said Carroll appeals to the U.S. military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to release all women in their prisons and that this "would help in winning her release."
Armed men abducted Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, on Jan. 7 in Baghdad and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women prisoners were released.
The U.S. military said Thursday it would release five Iraqi women detainees. A U.S. official said the release had nothing to do with the kidnappers' demand.