Jill Carroll's Ordeal
Follow the events surrounding the kidnapping and eventual release in Iraq of Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Carroll receives a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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Carroll moves to Jordan six months before the Iraq war starts. She was laid off as a reporting assistant for The Wall Street Journal before heading overseas.
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Carroll, working as a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, is kidnapped from one of Baghdad's most dangerous Sunni Arab neighborhoods. Her translator is shot dead by her captors.
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Al-Jazeera TV airs a silent 20-second video of Carroll. An accompanying message gave the United States until Jan. 20 to free female prisoners in Iraq and said Carroll would be killed otherwise. On the tape, Carroll is pale and appears tired.
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Carroll's mother appeals for her daughter's release hours before her captors' deadline to kill her.
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The Sunni Arab politician Carroll had traveled to interview when she was abducted, Adnan al-Dulaimi, appeals for Carroll's release. The deadline set by her captors passes.
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The U.S. military says it will release five Iraqi women detainees, but U.S. officials say it has nothing to do with the captors' demand. Several other Iraqi women remain jailed.
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Weeping and wearing an Islamic veil, Carroll again appears on a video aired by Al-Jazeera. The tape does not play clear audio but the network reports that Carroll had appealed for authorities to free all women prisoners in Iraq to help in winning her release.
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Carroll appears in a video dated Feb. 2 aired on a private Kuwaiti TV channel. Speaking in a strong voice, Carroll says: "I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible."
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Carroll's twin sister, Katie, appeals for her release in comments broadcast on Al-Arabiya, saying Jill had good relations with the Iraqi people.
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Jill Carroll is freed. Monitor editor David Cook says she had spoken to her father and is fine.
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Carroll returns to the United States aboard a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, and is reunited with her family at Boston's Logan International Airport.
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U.S. Marines announce the arrest four Iraqi men in connection with Carroll's kidnapping. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the four, who were not identified, were arrested in Anbar province west of Baghdad but he did not say when.
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In her first public account of her 82-day hostage ordeal, Carroll says she pleaded for a quick death by pistol fearing she was about to be beheaded. Carroll says she says she feared the worst when her captors said they planned to use her in a second propaganda video.
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Credits:
CBS/AP
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