US to free six Iraqi women amid silence on hostage

[sasha031]

BAGHDAD - The US military is to free six Iraqi women detainees this week, an Iraqi official said on Sunday, two days after the expiry of a deadline set by kidnappers of US reporter Jill Carroll for the release of all female captives.


“The six will be released within a week,” according to the justice ministry official who declined to be named. “The Americans don’t want their release to coincide with the ultimatum given by the kidnappers of the journalist.”

Carroll’s kidnappers, who shot dead her interpreter when they seized her on a Baghdad street on January 7, have threatened to kill her unless US forces released all Iraqi women detainees.

They gave a deadline of last Friday. This passed with no word on the fate of the 28-year-old who works for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/January/focusoniraq_January102.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Should read: "US to free 6 Irqaqi women hostages"

Detainees = hostages

[SteppingRazor]

2. Isn't that almost all the women we have held?

IIRC, we're only holding something like 8 or 9 women right now. Of course, releasing six of them probably won't be enough for people who get off on beheading other people, but hey...