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US hostage released in Iraq arrives in Boston
AFP, April, 2006
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BOSTON, United States (AFP) — US reporter Jill Carroll arrived at Boston's airport on a flight from Germany to reunite with her family after nearly three months of captivity in Iraq.
The freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor located in Boston, Massachusetts was abducted in Baghdad on January 7 by armed men, who shot her Iraqi translator dead.
She was released Thursday and dropped off near the Baghdad office of the Iraqi Islamic Party. Footage from an interview she gave there appeared on Iraqi television shortly after.
Carroll has become a nationally known figure in her home country.
She was flown from Baghdad to a US air base in Germany on Saturday and arrived back in the United States on a commercial flight from Germany, according to television footage.
Carroll made no public comment upon arriving back in the United States. News footage showed her being whisked from ...
