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October 20, 2005
UK: Fears Heightened for Journalist in Iraq, if Kidnappers are Islamists
Yesterday, while interviewing one of Saddam's Shia victims, in an interview arranged by Moqtada al-Sadr, a journalist working for UK newspaper, the Guardian, was snatched at gunpoint. He was taken as he left the house of the victim, in Baghdad, with one of his two drivers. The pair were bundled into a car and taken away, according to the Telegraph. The driver was later found unharmed, but the fate of the journalist, 33 year old Rory Carroll, is unknown.
Carroll, an Irish citizen, was working on coverage of the trial of Saddam Hussein. The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger has made a statement
"He is in Iraq as a professional journalist - and he's a very good, straight journalist whose only concern is to report fairly and truthfully about the country.Mr Carroll's Irish citizenship will be no protection, if he has been kidnapped by Islamists. Margaret Hassan had an Irish passport, but she was kidnapped exactly a year before, on October 19 2004. She was later murdered by her captors. The Times reported:"We urge those holding him to release him swiftly - for the sake of his family and for the sake of anyone who believes the world needs to be kept fully informed about events in Iraq today."
Dermot Ahern, the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister, yesterday spoke to Irish embassy officials in Tehran and Cairo and is liaising with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A year ago he intervened in the kidnap of Ken Bigley, issuing an Irish passport to convince Bigley's captors of his Irish citizenship. The last reported abduction of a foreigner was last month, when a video on the internet showed Garabet Jekerjian, a Lebanese contractor, being held at gunpoint. Nearly 40 foreigners have been killed, and journalists have been targeted before in Iraq.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 20, 2005 9:24 AM
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