Just confirmed this hour.

 

BAGHDAD Kidnapped U.S. reporter Jill Carroll has been released after nearly three months in captivity, Iraq police and the leader of the Islamic Party said Thursday. She was reported in good condition.

 

She told a Washington Post reporter: "I was never hurt, ever hit...I was kept in a safe place and treated very well."

 

Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped on Jan. 7, in Baghdad's western Adil neighborhood while going to interview Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi. Her translator was killed in the attack about 300 yards from al-Dulaimi's office.

 

"She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine," said David Cook, Washington bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor.

 

[The news came shortly before 7 a.m., Eastern Time. The Monitor at 7:03 a.m. posted this on its Web site: "After being held hostage for nearly three months, Jill Carroll is free. More details shortly."]

 

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1002274754

Excellent news.

Thank God.

Thank God.

 

 

 

Seriously. That video of her with the guys standing behind her was eerily similar to the Nick Berg video and I thought the worst would happen.