Public Support for Hostage Jill Carroll On the Rise

Wadah Khanfar, Director General, Al Jazeera Network, addressing an audience. Image: ictQATAR

Al Jazeera managing director, Waddah Khanfar, also made his own public petition for all Al Jazeera journalists for the immediate release of Carroll.

“Everything is being done to work with those who might have influence, and there are an awful lot of people who are calling for her release,” said Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice.

Reporter, Jill Carroll has been in captivity since Jan. 7. She and interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, were stopped as they drove away from an attempt to meet with Sunni Arab leader Adnan al Dulaimi in Baghdad. Reports indicate that Enwiyah was found dead near the area of the abduction.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has noted recently that the death count for journalists and their collegues in Iraq, is higher than previously reported. 101 deaths now accounted for also include the working collegues of dead journalists. The added number are those who have lost lives while staying behind the scenes on camera or others working close beside news staff as translators.

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Seven weeks following the release of this article Jill Carroll was released by her captors. This news round-up by Mosaic World News from the Middle East, March 30, 2006, on Link TV reports.

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Women News Network – WNN human rights journalist, Lys Anzia, is an award winning playwright and radio producer for WINGS – Women’s News Gathering Service. She is also editor-at-large for WNN.

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Additional material for this article has come from The Christian Science Monitor, The International Herald Tribune, Associated Press and Mosaic World News.

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