Aljazeera.Net - US journalist in fresh video appeal
Jill Carroll, the kidnapped US journalist held in Iraq, has appeared in a new video, weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.
The video, aired by Aljazeera on Monday, showed Carroll wearing a veil but carried no sound.
Aljazeera said the 28-year-old journalist appealed for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.
The footage had a time signature with the date 28 January. Aljazeera's newscaster said in the video Carroll appeals to the US military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to release all women in their prisons and that this "would help in winning her release". Armed men abducted Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, on 7 January in Baghdad and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women prisoners were released.
Her translator was shot dead during the kidnapping.
The latest video of Carroll was widely reported in the United States, but most television stations refused to broadcast more than a few seconds of it, calling it too disturbing.
The Christian Science Monitor expressed deep concern Monday over her fate.
Editor Richard Bergenheim said:
"Anyone with a heart will feel distressed that an innocent woman like Jill Carroll would be treated in the manner shown in the latest video."
Many of Germany's prisoners have been released, because Germany is willing to do the right thing. The USA for ONCE has to do the right thing for this young girl.
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