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KWTX
March 30, 2018
In 2006, American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq. ... Cambodian-born journalist Dith Pran, whose story became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at age 65.
WTOP
March 26, 2018
In 2006, American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq. ... Cambodian-born journalist Dith Pran, whose story became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at age 65.
Christian Science Monitor
October 23, 2017
Intelligence missions, including the 2006 kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll, taught the US Air Force officer that classified ... “There were hard-fought and valuable lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan that we could apply to achieve a more disruptive effect [in poaching],” saysÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 20, 2017
Zarqawi came to Northern Iraq after fleeing the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan with the far-fetched goal of ousting secular authoritarians like Saddam Hussein and replacing them with religious rule in a caliphate. He imagined his caliphate stretching from Mosul to Syria and beyond in the manner of hisÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 27, 2015
Sunnis in Iraq fear their Shiite-majority government and, worse, the Shiite militias controlled by Iran and the Iraqi police. In Syria, average people, mainly Sunnis, wanted to throw off the yoke of an oppressive regime with a history of mass murder of Sunnis and favoring citizens that are adherents to anÃâà...
The New Republic
November 11, 2014
In January 2006, a journalist named Jill Carroll was ambushed and kidnapped while attempting an interview in Baghdad. Her translator was shot dead on the spot and she was not seen again until the first hostage video came out a month later.
CNN International
March 19, 2013
In a 2011 interview with CNN, Lynch said the injuries she suffered in Iraq still affect her and that she wears a leg brace. She had undergone 20 surgeries .... Now: Carroll described her ordeal in the Monitor, writing an 11-part series called Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story. In 2008, she left the newspaper forÃâà...
CNN
August 24, 2008
Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in January 2006 and freed unharmed in March of that year. Both men are suspected of overseeing car or suicide bombings targeting Iraqis with the intent of inciting sectarian violence, the statement said. Abu Tiba is suspected toÃâà...
TIME
March 18, 2007
On January 7, Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old freelance journalist working for The Christian Science Monitor, is abducted during a reporting trip to the Adel district of Baghdad. ... According to Reporters Without Borders, at least 153 journalists and media assistants have been killed since the invasion of Iraq.
Christian Science Monitor
August 29, 2006
She'd decompressed there for a day, talking to members of the US Embassy's Hostage Working Group, before traveling on an aircraft carrying American casualties ... Nearly five months on, what's to be learned from Jill Carroll's kidnapping and release? ... But she doesn't regret going to Iraq in the first place.
Christian Science Monitor
August 17, 2006
As he hopped from airport to airport on his way into Baghdad, staff writer Scott Peterson had called Boston to add his voice to those of TV network executives and Baghdad reporters who were forcefully arguing for a news blackout. It was a question of Jill's safety and hostage value. If the kidnappers hadÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
August 15, 2006
Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days. This is her story. By Jill Carroll, Staff writers for the Christian Science Monitor Peter Grier, Staff writers for the Christian Science Monitor August 14, 2006. close. Jill Carroll appears as a hostage in a silent 20-second videoÃâà...
NPR
April 1, 2006
28, Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Carroll was being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq, the insurgent group that freed two French journalists in 2004 after four months in captivity. She was last seen in a videotape broadcast Feb. 9 by the private Kuwaiti television station Al-Rai. Her twin sister, Katie,Ãâà...
CNN
March 30, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Nearly three months after she was abducted in Baghdad, American journalist Jill Carroll walked into the office of a Sunni Arab .... With Carroll's release, three journalists remain captive in Iraq, according to Lynn Tehini of Reporters Without Borders, a journalism advocacy group.
TIME
January 12, 2006
When Jill Carroll, 28, a Baghdad-based freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped on Saturday, the tightly knit community of reporters in the Iraqi capital knew of the abduction within hours. But in an almost unprecedented move, media organizations in Baghdad— Arabic and EnglishÃâà...
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