US hostage Jill Carroll released in Baghdad

· Journalist survived two deadlines in 82-day ordeal
· No deal made to secure release, says ambassador

Jonathan Steele in Baghdad and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday March 31, 2006
The Guardian


Eighty-two days after she was dragged from her car at gunpoint, American journalist Jill Carroll was free yesterday, walking unharmed into the branch office of an Iraqi political party in one of the most dangerous suburbs of Baghdad.
Carrying a slip of paper in Arabic identifying her as a kidnapped American, Ms Carroll, 28, a freelance journalist who had been working in Baghdad for the Christian Science Monitor, arrived at a branch office of the Iraqi Islamic party in the western neighbourhood of Amiriya at about midday.


From the Guardian Unlimited (on-line)

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