And that is very good news for a change:
BAGHDAD, March 30 — American journalist Jill Carroll, abducted in early January by gunmen in Baghdad, was released to a Sunni Arab political party in the capital Thursday morning after 82 days in captivity.
“I was never hurt, ever hit,” she told a Washington Post reporter. “I was kept in a safe place and treated very well.”
Carroll, 28, a freelance reporter working for the Christian Science Monitor, arrived safely at the party headquarters just after 1 p.m.
“Unknown people,” released Carroll to the Iraqi Islamic Party’s branch office in Amariyah in the western part of the city, Tariq al-Hashimi, the party’s secretary general, said in a telephone conversation at 12:30 p.m. local time. The party then transported her by armed convoy to its headquarters in the Yarmouk district.
“She is OK. She is safe. She is more or less scared,” Hashimi said. “I told her calm down and we would take care of her.”
Thanks to all who kept her in their thoughts and prayers. Why, I bet even Rush Limbaugh might be happy about her release, considering he claimed her capture proved that journalism is more dangerous than mining. Let’s hope so.