'Monitor' Reports No News In Search For Abducted Journalist

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'Monitor' Reports No News in Search for Abducted Journalist
Jill Carroll

By Joe Strupp

Published: January 12, 2006 12L55 PM ET

NEW YORK Little news has emerged from Iraq in recent days on the search for abducted stringer Jill Carroll, who most recently reported for the Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor's managing editor, Marshall Ingwerson, told E&P today the paper has not heard anything new on Carroll's whereabouts or condition. He said the official search efforts are being headed by a combined "hostage working group" consisting of state department officials and Iraqi police.

"It includes the U.S. military and the government," he added, but offered no specifics. A Pentagon spokesman told E&P that such efforts to find abducted Americans are handled through the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which has not responded to requests for information.

Meanwhile, the paper is expected to send a second reporter to Baghdad on Friday to join reporter Scott Peterson, who has been there for several days working on efforts to find Carroll. The Monitor also has been using a new freelancer to cover other news in the region.

As the search continues, the paper's editors say they are rethinking their coverage in Iraq, given the growing danger for reporters and others.

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[katinmn]

1. I hope the investigative reporter spends A LOT of time interviewing

eyewitnesses.

They won't get anything useful otherwise.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. That was a violent and deadly abduction.

The kidnappers seemed to mean business.