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sonz
01-21-2006, 11:44 AM
Negotiators are working around the clock to secure the release of Jill Carroll, the U.S. journalist kidnapped in Iraq, as a deadline set by the armed group threatening to kill her passed Friday with no word on her fate.

A French journalists lobbying group, Reporters without Borders, and senior Muslim officials in France appealed to the kidnappers of the American reporter to immediately release her.

At a press conference in the Great Mosque in Paris, Rector Dr. Dalil Boubaker called "in the name of Islam" for the release of the female journalist.

The kidnappers' Friday deadline passed with no word on Carroll's fate, who was kidnapped in Iraq on January 7.

Carroll is a freelance reporter employed by Jordanian, Italians and Americans media, including the well-known "Christian Science Monitor."

"This kidnapping is bad for the image of Islam and we are against all these bad actions against all people, whatever his nationality, politics or religion, all of which are sacred because we trust in God and we trust in human life," said Boubaker.

Also Robert Menard, the Secretary-General of Reporters without Borders criticized the lack of efforts to release the innocent 28-year old journalist as is attested by previous cases of kidnappings.

"There has been no mobilization by the American government, nor by the American press," he told reporters, adding that "at the beginning there was the idea that there was a possibility of getting (Carroll) out by other means than negotiations. We were asked not to talk about her during 48 hours because there was another possibility to get her out of there."

But, according to Menard, this did not work and "we must find another solution. This solution will come through mobilization and the mobilization of the Arab media as well.

"I saw Arab Media talk about Carroll but they should call for her release as they did for other captives in the past," he urged.

He, moreover, stated that the American nationality of the kidnapped reporter "weighted against her" but this should "push us to support her even more in this situation."

"How can we speak about Iraq today if there are no journalists there," he added. "Should we be happy with official statements from the American forces or the Iraqi guerrillas or resistance - I don’t know what we should really call them.

"We need Jill Carroll and precisely because there are people like that, the day there is a problem we have to mobilize," he said, adding that he doesn’t regret Carroll’s presence in Iraq, but he regrets what has happened to her.

Source: Kuna.net
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