Wednesday 18 January 2006
Baghdad - U.S. forces in Iraq said on Wednesday they were holding eight women prisoners, after the abductors of an American journalist threatened to kill her unless the authorities freed all Iraqi women within 72 hours.
"We have eight females. They are being held for the same reasons as the others, namely that they are a threat to security," said Lt. Aaron Henninger, a spokesman for the U.S. military detentions operation. Some 14,000 men are held at Abu Ghraib and other jails on suspicion of insurgent activity.
Jill Carroll, 28, a freelance journalist working for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad on January 7 and one of the newspapers editors Wednesday called on her abductors to release her unharmed.
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Baghdad - U.S. forces in Iraq said on Wednesday they were holding eight women prisoners, after the abductors of an American journalist threatened to kill her unless the authorities freed all Iraqi women within 72 hours.
"We have eight females. They are being held for the same reasons as the others, namely that they are a threat to security," said Lt. Aaron Henninger, a spokesman for the U.S. military detentions operation. Some 14,000 men are held at Abu Ghraib and other jails on suspicion of insurgent activity.
Jill Carroll, 28, a freelance journalist working for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad on January 7 and one of the newspapers editors Wednesday called on her abductors to release her unharmed.
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