Jill Carroll Released

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 30 — Jill Carroll, the reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad in early January and whose case generated widespread international attention, was freed today, according to a correspondent for her newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor.

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Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor.

"We can confirm that she has been released," said Scott Peterson, a correspondent for the paper in Baghdad. He offered no information about the circumstances of her release or her well-being.

Ms. Carroll, 28, was abducted Jan. 7 in western Baghdad and appeared in three videotapes released by her captors. The kidnappers issued a statement through a Kuwaiti television station in February demanding that the Americans and Iraqis release all imprisoned women by Feb. 26 or she would be killed. That date passed without the governments’ compliance, and there was no further word of Ms. Carroll.

On Feb. 28, Iraq’s interior minister told ABC News that the kidnapped American reporter Jill Carroll was still alive and that he knew who had kidnapped her and believed she would be released soon.

Ms. Carroll was kidnapped less than 300 yards from the office of Adnan Dulaimy, a prominent Sunni Arab politician, whom Ms. Carroll had been intending to interview that morning. Her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, 32, was shot dead at the scene.

In an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Mr. Dulaimy repeatedly expressed his concerns about Ms. Carroll. In recent months, he made public appeals for her release.

Though many other Americans have been kidnapped in Iraq since the invasion, and some remain in captivity, Ms. Carroll’s kidnapping garnered unusually widespread international attention, not least because her plight hit close to home for the journalists in Iraq who covered it.

Ms. Carroll, who grew up in Michigan and speaks some Arabic, had been reporting in the Middle East since late 2002, mostly in Iraq.