UPDATE II: Dr. Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report has a greatly detailed post on Carroll’s release.

AP is reporting:

Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll has been freed in Iraq and is healthy, a Monitor editor said Thurday.

“She was released this morning, she’s talked to her father and she’s fine,” said David Cook, a monitor editor in Washington.

He said the paper had no further details immediately and just learned of her release abou[t] 6:15 a.m. EST.

UPDATE: News is just begining to come in. Here is part of an expanded story from the AP:

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.

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Police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya, western Baghdad, by an unknown group. She was later turned over to the Americans and was believed to be in the heavily fortified Green Zone, he said.

Her captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be killed if that didn’t happen. The date came and went with no word about her welfare.

Fox News is reporting that her father, Jim Carroll, “wants to thank the thousands who have prayed.”

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