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CAMP HABBANIYAH - Jill Carroll ‘s kidnappers are now locked up. Marines captured four members of an insurgent kidnapping cell responsible for the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor. Marines of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment captured and detained three members May 19, in a small village west of Fallujah. A fourth member of the same kidnapping cell was detained later by Marines of 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment. Both battalions operated as part of Regimental Combat Team 5. Carroll was held hostage by insurgent captors for 82 days between January and March...

LONDON (AFP) - An Irish journalist working for the British newspaper The Guardian has been kidnapped by armed men in Iraq, the London-based newspaper said. "Rory Carroll was... kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad. Carroll, 33, an experienced foreign correspondent, had been conducting an interview in the city with a victim of Saddam Hussein's regime. He had been preparing an article for today's (Thursday's) paper on the opening of the former dictator's trial yesterday," the paper said in its online edition. "Carroll, who was accompanied by two drivers and a translator, was confronted by the gunmen as he left the house...

The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers. But after an emotional reunion with her family in Boston, the 28-year-old freelance correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor spoke of her loathing for the gunmen who threatened her with death "many times" during her ordeal. She described her captors as "criminals at best" and denied allegations that she had refused to answer questions from the American military. She also disavowed a video-taped statement made...

Former hostage Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened. In a video, recorded before she was freed and posted by her captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the U.S. military presence. But Carroll said the recording was made under threat. Her editor has said three men were pointing guns at her at the time. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me I would be released if I...

Seems Jill Carroll is refusing to talk to authorities concerning her captives. She already has been caught lying in her post release interview where she says she was not threatened, since she was on video with AK- 47's trained on her head. Stokholm syndrome???? I'm not buying it...how about you?

Freed US hostage Jill Carroll praised Iraq's insurgents and predicted their victory in an interview conducted by her captors before they released her today, according to a video posted on the internet. The footage, which could not be independently verified, appeared to have been filmed shortly before the freelance journalist was released today nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad. "Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time?" a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English. "Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might...

Breaking - Jill Carrol released in Iraq - more to come

BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. forces hunting kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll are raiding Iraqi homes in a race against time but, as with much of their counter-insurgency war, face the dilemma that their tactics can foster resentment. Operations designed to take her captors by surprise have angered those Iraqis who say troops have blasted their way into their homes, put sacks over their heads and detained their relatives in the search for Carroll, who was abducted on Jan 7. One such raid, shortly after the reporter was seized, targeted one of Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosques; the sight of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The mother of an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq appealed for her daughter's life on Thursday, the eve of a deadline set by her captors for the release of all women in U.S. custody in the country. "Taking vengeance on my innocent daughter, who loves Iraq and its people, will not create justice," Mary Beth Carroll said in a message aimed at the gunmen holding Jill Carroll, 28. Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East joined intensifying calls for mercy. But as new video images emerged Thursday of the pale, dark-haired woman surrounded...

Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early.                                Hostage takers demanded on                  Tuesday that women be freed The six will be freed because there is insufficient evidence to charge them, a justice ministry spokesman said. The US forces have refused to confirm the releases, but say they would not be based on any operational activities. The group holding US journalist Jill Carroll has said she will die unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. The status of prisoners held by coalition...

Outgoing, gung-ho and gregarious. As the picture of kidnapped reporter Jill Carroll emerges, a school friend from her days in Ann Arbor says it's those same qualities that will help her survive. Communities in Ann Arbor and Amherst, Mass., where Carroll, 28, attended the University of Massachusetts, are struggling to come to terms with her disappearance. Carroll was freelancing for The Christian Science Monitor when she was kidnapped Saturday. She had been on her way to meet a Sunni Arab official in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods when gunmen ambushed her car and killed her translator. U.S. and Iraqi...

BAGHDAD, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A female Western journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday and her translator killed, police said. They said she was on her way to a meeting with a Sunni Arab leader when a car carrying an unknown number of gunmen blocked her vehicle in the Adel district near Malik bin Anas mosque in west Baghdad. The gunmen shot dead her driver, an Iraqi journalist who also worked as her translator, abandoned their car and drove off in hers. There has been a spate of kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq over the past few months...

Poem penned by U.S. Founding Father discovered in English schoolBy Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service LONDON (CNS) -- A poem written by one of the U.S. Founding Fathers has been discovered in the archives of a Catholic high school in England. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the signers of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, wrote the poem in Latin in 1754 when he was a student in his final year of high school in Saint-Omer, France. It was found in the archives of Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe, England, by Maurice Whitehead, a professor at the University of Wales, Swansea,...

All deserve second chance, presumption of innocence Gregory Kane May 11, 2005 CHARLES CARROLL was convicted of second-degree murder in 1995 and paroled in 2001. Four years later, after being hired to teach at Community Initiatives Academy in East Baltimore, he has been charged with rape and sexual abuse. The predictable shouts of protest have been heard. The questions have been raised. The most prominent one is: How can a school, even a private one, trust a convicted murderer to be around children? In 1996 Anthony Tyrone Mills fatally stabbed my brother, Tyrone Kane. In 1997 Mills was sentenced to...

NEW YORK - Two 16-year-old girls living in New York have been detained since last month on immigration violations amid concerns they were potential recruits for a suicide bomb plot that never materialized, officials said Thursday. The girls — one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea — were picked up by authorities on March 24 and put in a detention center, the officials said. Details about the case, first reported Thursday by The New York Times, were sketchy, and a supporter of one of the girls claimed the accusations were false. The Times cited a government document that said the FBI...

A WASTE OF TIME By MICHAEL PATRICK CARROLL New Jersey does not suffer from a property tax crisis; it suffers from a spending crisis. More accurately, we suffer from a political irresponsibility crisis. In Abbott v. Burke, our Supreme Court short circuited democracy, asserting that the constitution compels certain levels of spending, regardless of what the people, acting through their elected representatives, prefer. As a result, some people get to spend money on themselves, and send the bills to others, who have no choice in the matter. Obviously, spending has exploded, and the beneficiaries demand ever more, to which demands...

Church greets Muslims in holy monthThe Catholic Church in Australia has marked the Islamic holy month of Ramadan by sending prayerful greetings to Muslims. It reaffirmed a shared commitment to peace, built on the four pillars of truth, justice, love and freedom. The local greetings coincide with a message to all Muslims throughout the world from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. President of the Pontifical Council Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald said it seemed appropriate to centre this year's message on the need to construct peace, based on Pope John XXIII's landmark letter on peace, issued 40 years ago...

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State Rep. Jennifer Carroll on Saturday told a joke about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. Carroll quiet in wake of joke Democrats have raised a stink, called for apology after crack about Clinton. By STEPHEN MAJORS The Times-Union State Rep. Jennifer Carroll, R-Green Cove Springs, is not commenting further after defending a joke she made Saturday about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Miami Beach, Carroll said Clinton was visited by the ghosts of Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. According to The Associated Press, the joke had Clinton asking each president what she could do...

<p>TALLAHASSEE -- On April 7 at the state kickoff for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Tallahassee, state Rep. Jennifer Carroll took her seat next to some of the most prominent Republicans from across the state and country.</p> <p>Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, Attorney General Charlie Crist, Commissioner Charles Bronson and Carole Jean Jordan, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Florida, joined Carroll in the backdrop of the campaign event.</p>