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"We want to especially thank The Christian Science Monitor, who did so much work to keep her image alive in Iraq."In a statement issued by the Monitor, the family said, "Our hearts are full ...We would like to thank all of the generous people around the world who worked officially or unofficially - especially those who took personal risk - to gain Jill's release."During Carroll's months in captivity, she had appeared in three videos broadcast on Arab television, pleading for her life.Her captors had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb.
26 and said Carroll would be killed if that did not happen.
The date came and went with no word about her fate.On Feb.
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 i...
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