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Freed U.S. Journalist Lands in Germany
Associated Press ^ | 1 April 06 | MATT MOORE
Posted on 04/01/2006 3:57:46 AM MST by SkyPilot
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll
arrived Saturday under U.S. military protection in Germany, the first
stop on her return to the United States after 82 days in captivity in
Iraq.
28-year-old U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, left, is welcomed by Base Commander,
Col. Kurt Lohide after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein,
southwestern Germany, Saturday, April 1, 2006. Carroll was a hostage in Iraq
for 82 days and was released last Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Gone was the Islamic headscarf and dress robe she had worn as a
hostage. Instead she was wearing jeans, a bulky gray sweater, and a
desert camouflage jacket.
Col. Kurt Lohide, commander of the 435th Air Base Wing, welcomed
her to Ramstein.
"I'm happy to be here," she said.
Carroll, a 28-year-old freelancer for the Boston-based Christian
Science Monitor, was seized Jan. 7 in western Baghdad by gunmen
who killed her Iraqi translator.
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I'm so glad for this young woman and her family. :-)