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On Jill Carroll

“All kidnappings and assassinations are completely rejected … especially when kidnapping a journalist. Journalists are here to tell the world about the occupation, so kidnapping a journalist is going to hide the truth.

“This journalist, Jill Carroll … is one of the great journalists who are against the occupation. She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused in her articles on … telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering.”

– Muthana Harith al-Dari, a leader of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Association, an umbrella group for a number of leading Sunni clerics.

January 18, 2006 - Posted by Rodger Jacobs | Politics | | 4 Comments

4 Comments »

Sure makes blogging from home look easy… I hope all turns out well…

Comment by David N. Scott | January 18, 2006
Jill Carroll is the daughter of a former boss of mine, Jim Carroll. Small (and scary) world.

Comment by mitten | January 23, 2006
As a colleague in the freelance world, I’m anxious for Jill’s safety, Mitten. She’s living the typical freelancers life: paycheck to paycheck, assignment to assignment, with no bodyguards, job security, or any other accoutrements. I hope we hear something soon and I pray that the silence long after the insurgent-imposed deadline has passed is only because there are behind the scenes negotations going on.

Comment by Rodger Jacobs | January 23, 2006
Hello-
I’m contacting you in hopes
that you will join in the efforts to win the release of 28 year-old
report Jill Carroll, abducted in Iraq on 01-07-06. Below is a link to
a petition respectfully asking for the release of Ms. Carroll– we are
hoping that a large number of signatures from around the world may
influence the holder(s) of Ms. Carroll to release her. Any help in
circulating this petition would be much appreciated.

http://new.petitiononline.com/12181981/petition.html (petition start
date 02-03-06)

Thank you

Comment by J P M | February 12, 2006