The Daily Background

Associated Press this morning:

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.

Happy ending for her. Of course conservative bloggers will probably try and make this into a “big win” for the President, and cite it as proof that Iraq is actually very stable and the world is great. Nothing could be farther from the truth however. I first blogged about Carrol here.

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