Please pray for Jill Carroll !!! (God, miracle, prayer, easter)

[FFH]

Jill Carroll appeared in a video Tuesday on the Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera, which said her kidnappers threatened to kill her unless the United States releases all female Iraqi prisoners within 72 hours. Parts of the same video were aired again Thursday. The deadline for the demand is roughly after midnight Thursday.

Source: www.cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ist/index.html

We need to pray for a miracle. We need to pray that Jill walks away from this alive !!! We need to pray that her captors will be unable to carry out her sentence, otherwise she will be beheaded Thursday, shortly after midnight, eastern time.

[Scuba Pete]

This is so needlessly tragic. I sincerely fear for her life! Prayer lamp lit.

[Green Gaia]

My chalice is lit today for Jill and all those in harms way. May they all find the safe arms of a loved one again soon.

[madkatz]

Well I hope for Jill to make it out ok, that and her captors relize that kidnapping people is not a way to get their prisoners returned.

[michel]

May God help her and others in the same position as she. This is just awful.

[jeffrey]

May God be with her and comfort her in her hour of need. We will be praying for her safety.

[Bangbang]

I hate to say this but I highly doubt she will be released. The people that took her are animals with total disregard for life. However she also new the risks of being there. I wish I could spend some time with these animals. I am thinking about her. Lets hope someone is able to intervene and save her from these slime balls.

[FFH]

Update on Jill Carroll for Friday January 20, 2:12 AM Eastern Time.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Arabic television stations broadcast an appeal on Friday from the father of American Journalist Jill Carroll as a deadline set by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her approached.

One of Iraq's most influencial Sunni Arab leaders was also expexted to call on Friday for Carroll to be freed.

Adnan Dulaimi, head of the General Conference of the Iraqi People, would make the call at news conference at 10:00 AM (0700 GMT), a source in his party said.

Carroll had just left Dulaimis's office on January 7 when she was abducted by gunmen. The kidnappers set a deadline of Friday for killing her if authorites did not release
women prisoners.

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television stations aired the appeal from Carroll's father.

"I want to speak directly to the kidnappers of my daughter Jill, sho could be fathers like me." Jim Carroll said on Jazeera in remarks dubbed into Arabic.

"My daughter has no influence, she doesn't have the power to free anyone, she's just a journalist and an innocent person...Use her as a reporter to support your cause."


Since 2003 more than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq, some by Sunni Arab insurgents and others by ransom-seeking gangs. Many of them have been killed.


Jazeera aired a brief video on Tuesday night showing Carroll, 28 a freelance journalist working for the Christian Science Monitor. The group holding her said it woud kill her if Iraqi women detainees were not released wtihin 72 hours.

Iraqi officials said on Thursday the U.S. military was freeing six women out of eight it was holding but that this was not linked to Carroll. A U.S. defence official said the releases would not come soon, however.

[FFH]

Update for January 20, 3:50 AM Eastern Time.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) A U.S.-based civil rights group, the Council on American- Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said on Thursday it planned to go to Baghdad on Friday to seek Carroll's release.

[Bangbang]

We should never negotiate with Terrorists. NEVER!! .....and for a person or group from the USA to go negotiate for her release is an act of treason in my opinion. This action just gives the terrorists more reason to take more prisoners. If a dog threatens to bite you would you give a him a treat?