Victim Jill Carroll

Reporter Jill Carroll was kidnapped by the mujahideen in Baghdad in January 2006 but was finally released unhurt. She was the 31st foreign journalist kidnapped during the Iraq War.

Carroll was working for the Christian Science Monitor nwspaper when she and her driver and interpreter were stopped by gunmen. The interpreter was shot to death, the driver escaped, and Carroll was taken hostage. A brief videotape was later released on Al-Jazeera. Her kidnappers wanted to trade her release for that of all female prisoners held by the U.S. in Iraq. Two additional video segments showing Carroll were eventually aired.

Five Iraqi women were released from U.S. custody, which apparently satisfied Carroll's kidnappers, who called themselves the Brigades of Vengeance. Carroll was dropped off near the offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Al Ameriya and reported that she had been humanely treated during her three-month captivity.