Jim Carroll, father of the kidnapped US journalist Jill Carroll,28, a freelancer, working for the Christian Science Monitor, has talked an Al Arabiya TV reporter on Thursday to appeal for her release. Her captors want the United States to release all Iraqi women in its custody. Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than a dozen Americans and killed at least four of them.





U.S. negotiators continued trying to secure the release of the victim on January 20 as a deadline set by terrorists threatening to kill her passed. There was no word on the fate of the 28-year-old who grew up in Ann Arbor.





Muslims from Baghdad to Paris to southeastern Michigan urged the militants to free Carroll, who was seized in a rough Baghdad neighborhood Jan. 7 by gunmen who killed her translator. The Sunni Arab politician she had gone to interview has also urged her release and demanded that U.S. forces stop detaining Iraqi women. “This act has hurt me and makes me sad because the journalist was trying to meet me when she was kidnapped,” said Adnan al-Dulaimi. “I call upon the kidnappers to immediately release this reporter who came here to cover Iraq’s news and defend our rights.”





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