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"Obviously, we are thrilled and relieved that she has been released," he said."We want to thank all that have supported and prayed for her.
We want to especially thank The Christian Science Monitor, who did so much work to keep her image alive in Iraq."
During Carroll's months in captivity, she had appeared twice in 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, Iraqi 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, issued a plea for her release on Al-Arabiya television late Wednesday.
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