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U.S. Military Releases Five Iraqi Women
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military released five Iraqi women detainees Thursday, a move
demanded by the kidnappers of an American reporter to spare her life,
but an official said the release was coincidental.
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The women were freed from U.S. custody and delivered to the home of a senior Sunni Arab politician in Baghdad, where they were returned to their families, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. They were later driven away in taxis.
Armed men who abducted Jill Carroll on Jan. 7 in Baghdad have threatened to kill the freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor unless all Iraqi women prisoners were freed.
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