Marines Arrest 4 In Carroll Kidnapping
Troops Tracked Down Locations Where Journalist May Have Been Held Captive
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Play CBS Video Video Carroll Kidnap Suspects Caught The suspects wanted in the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll in Iraq are in custody, according to the U.S. military. Manuel Gallegus reports.
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Video Jill Carroll Kidnap Arrests CBS News RAW: U.S. Commander Gen. William Caldwell briefed journalists on the recent capture of four men believed to be responsible for the abduction of American journalist Jill Carroll.
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Video Reaction To Iraqi Arrests CBS News RAW: Christian Science Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim discusses journalist Jill Carroll, whose suspected kidnappers were just arrested in Iraq.
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Jill Carroll appeared in a silent 20-second video aired Jan. 17, 2006, on Al-Jazeera. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera)
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An empty kitchen of the house where Jill Carroll is thought to have been held captive, in a rural area outside a U.S. air base, in Taqqadum, Iraq, Friday, May 19, 2006. The image was released Wednesday Aug. 9, 2006, by U.S. marine Corps. (AP)
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U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, left, is welcomed by Base Commander, Col. Kurt Lohide after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein, Germany, on April 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Jill Carroll, appearing on television during her captivity. (CBS)
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Iraqis inspect the destruction at the Shiite mosque Husseiniya, which was targeted by a powerful mortar shell, according to a statement from the Baquba city police directorate, in the restive city north of Baghdad, Aug. 9, 2006. (Getty Images/Ali Yussef)
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Interactive Reporter's Ordeal Track events surrounding the kidnapping of Jill Carroll, the journalist who spent 82 days in captivity in Iraq.
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Marines said a May 19 operation about 2 miles outside the Taqqadum logistics hub netted the first of four Iraqis accused of kidnapping Carroll. U.S. officials believe she was held in the suspects's residence and other homes.
Carroll, a freelance journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, was released March 30 in Baghdad after 82 days in captivity.
The U.S. military said Wednesday four Iraqi men had been arrested in the kidnapping but had not decided what legal action to take against them. Her kidnappers, a previously unknown group that called themselves the Revenge Brigade, had threatened to kill Carroll if all female detainees in Iraq were not freed.
U.S. officials did release some women detainees before her release but said the decision was unrelated to the demands.
After the breakthrough raid, U.S. forces captured three more suspects and freed two kidnapped Iraqis in hideouts where Carroll was thought to have been held. One of the homes was booby trapped and full of explosives.
Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment said independent tips led them to a cluster of homes near an abandoned train station just outside the Taqqadum base about 50 miles west of Baghdad. A one-story home in a relatively peaceful neighborhood that Marines often drove by matched their intelligence reports.
"Where it's at, there's a mosque, a school. It blends into the neighborhood. It's like any other house," said 1st. Sgt. Chris Reed, 32, of Kirkland, Wash., who helped arrest the first suspect.
In other developments from Iraq:
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