French rally for Jill Carroll (CS Monitor)

[Up2Late]

(Does anyone in this country still care about this poor woman? Or have we all forgotten she's still being held?)
from the February 08, 2006 edition

French rally for Jill Carroll

By David Clark Scott | World editor

Thirty white balloons were released in Paris Tuesday to mark the number of days (it's been 32 days, but the sentiment is what counts) that American journalist Jill Carroll has spent in captivity in Iraq.

With French actress Juliette Binoche and former French hostage Florence Aubenas attending, Reporters Without Borders held a demonstration in the Trocadero esplanade overlooking the Seine River. A banner supported by helium-filled balloons read, "Free Jill Carroll."

"The impressive show of solidarity that was maintained for Ms. Aubenas all the time she was a hostage should now be repeated for Ms. Carroll, and for Iraqi journalists Reem Zeid and Marwan Khazaal, of whom there has been no news since they were kidnapped on Feb. 1," said Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard.

"Thirty-seven journalists have been kidnapped since the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003, five of them losing their lives," Mr. Ménard stressed.

(more at link before)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0208/p06s02-wogn.html>

[medeak]

1. exactly!

what happened to all the coverage? She's not a blonde girl missing in Aruba?

[madrchsod]

2. it`s being cover in the rest of the worlds press

dishnet work now has pakistan tv news in english along with desi tv a new indian-anerican tv. also the spainish speaking networks-hell one of them covered jill`s plight. throw in freespeach and link and dish has as many world wide press as the american crap.

[Vidar]

3. Our oldest ally stands up for our reporter, but not bush. Choke on

your freedom fries, you sob.

[Up2Late]

4. kick n/t

:kick: