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Freed Reporter Unclear on Motive for Her Abduction

by Jamie Tarabay, NPR
March 30, 2006

American reporter Jill Carroll is released unharmed in Iraq, three months after she was kidnapped. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in an interview on Baghdad television. Her captors had demanded that female detainees be freed or Carroll would be killed.

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  • All Things Considered, March 30, 2006
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