American Absent From New Hostage Tape
Sound Inaudible, But 3 Captives Said To Ask Governments For Help
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Play CBS Video Video Some Sunnis Welcome U.S. Help The violence in Iraq has gotten so bad that Iraqis are welcoming American patrols in places like Dora, a mostly Sunni neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad. Kimberly Dozier reports.
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Video Iraqi Gov't Faces Major Test Claudia Coffey reports on the challenges facing the Iraqi parliament to elect a new government as violence across the countryside continued to dominate the headlines.
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An Iraqi man walks past unexploded ordnance next to the wreckage of a car bomb blast, in Baghdad,Iraq, Tuesday, March 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Image released by IntelCenter apparently showing U.S. hostage Tom Fox in a tape released last December. (AP /APTN)
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A pool of blood is seen at the site where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's Zaafraniya district, March 7, 2006. (Getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
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Interactive Saddam's Judgment Background on the former Iraqi leader's alleged crimes, his life and capture, plus video and photos.
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In its Tuesday statement, the organization said "14,600 Iraqis currently (are) detained illegally by the Multinational Forces in Iraq." Its teams host human rights conferences in conflict zones, promoting peaceful solutions.
Also still held hostage in Iraq is American reporter Jill Carroll, who the Iraqi interior minister has said was being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq, the insurgent group that freed two French journalists in 2004 after four months in captivity.
Bayan Jabr, who is in charge of Iraq's police, also said he believed the 28-year-old freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor was still alive, although the deadline set by her captors for the U.S. to meet their demands expired late last month.
Three videotapes provided by the kidnappers to Arab satellite television stations identified the group holding her as the previously unknown "Revenge Brigades." She was seized Jan. 7 in Baghdad and her translator was killed.
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