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01-30-2006, 04:49 PM
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Arab TV airs video of kidnapped U.S. journalist
(CNN) -- Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera said on Monday it had aired a new video in which abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appears distraught and appeals for the release of female Iraqi prisoners.
Last week, the U.S. military in Iraq released five female detainees after determining they were not security threats. Four female prisoners reportedly remain in U.S. custody.
Carroll's kidnappers said a week earlier they would kill her if all female prisoners in U.S. detention in Iraq were not freed. The freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was abducted January 7.
The five women released were among 424 detainees released "as a result of detailed screening," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman.
"They were determined not to be a problem in Iraq," Lynch said.
The release of the female detainees was "part of our normal process, and not as a result of demands by terrorists and criminals," Lynch reiterated. "We don't negotiate with terrorists and criminals."
Bosho Ibrahim Ali, a deputy justice minister, told CNN the remaining four female prisoners might be released with another group at another time.
Ali said he had started his effort to free the female detainees for humanitarian reasons before Carroll's abduction.
The non-religious Christian Science Monitor has posted on its Web site the appeals of Muslims and non-Muslims for Carroll's release. They include an appeal from a top official of Hamas, the Islamic militant group considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States.
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Arab TV airs video of kidnapped U.S. journalist
(CNN) -- Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera said on Monday it had aired a new video in which abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appears distraught and appeals for the release of female Iraqi prisoners.
Last week, the U.S. military in Iraq released five female detainees after determining they were not security threats. Four female prisoners reportedly remain in U.S. custody.
Carroll's kidnappers said a week earlier they would kill her if all female prisoners in U.S. detention in Iraq were not freed. The freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was abducted January 7.
The five women released were among 424 detainees released "as a result of detailed screening," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman.
"They were determined not to be a problem in Iraq," Lynch said.
The release of the female detainees was "part of our normal process, and not as a result of demands by terrorists and criminals," Lynch reiterated. "We don't negotiate with terrorists and criminals."
Bosho Ibrahim Ali, a deputy justice minister, told CNN the remaining four female prisoners might be released with another group at another time.
Ali said he had started his effort to free the female detainees for humanitarian reasons before Carroll's abduction.
The non-religious Christian Science Monitor has posted on its Web site the appeals of Muslims and non-Muslims for Carroll's release. They include an appeal from a top official of Hamas, the Islamic militant group considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States.
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Guess the 400 or so detainee weren't for her