Journalist freed from Baghdad captors
{{date|October 21, 2005}}
Irish news correspondent [[w:Rory Carroll|Rory Carroll]] was free Thursday night from his [[w:Baghdad|Baghdad]] captors after 36 hours of being held hostage. Carroll was released to [[w: Ahmad Chalabi|Ahmad Chalabi]], the deputy prime minister of [[Iraq]], and was put under the protection of the Iraqi government.

"I was treated reasonably well," Carroll said of his captors. He thought that his abduction was done by criminals who were being opportunistic.  Their identity is unclear.

The 33-year-old Carroll was on assignment from ''[[The Guardian|The Guardian]]'' when he was taken from outside a house in the predominantly Shiite area of [[w: Sadr City|Sadr City]] Wednesday. 
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==Related news==
*{{Wikinews|title=Irish Government sends team of officials in hunt for Journalist
|date=October 20, 2005}}
*{{Wikinews|title=Irish Guardian journalist reported missing in Iraq
|date=October 19, 2005}}

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/rorycarroll/story/0,16647,1597367,00.html
|title=Statement from the Guardian: Guardian journalist freed
|author=
|pub=The Guardian
|date=October 21, 2005}} 
*{{source|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/21/wirq21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/21/ixworld.html 
|title=Newsman is released by Baghdad kidnappers
|author=Oliver Poole
|pub=Telegraph
|date=October 21, 2005}} 
*{{source|url= http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=159859580&p=y5986xz86 
|title= Carroll 'freed by Sadr City residents'
|author=
|pub=Ireland OnLine
|date=October 20, 2005}} 
*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4362378.stm
|title= Kidnapped reporter freed in Iraq
|author=
|pub=BBC News
|date=October 20, 2005}}

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Irish news correspondent Rory Carroll was free Thursday night from his Baghdad captors after 36 hours of being held hostage. Carroll was released to Ahmad Chalabi, the deputy prime minister of Iraq, and was put under the protection of the Iraqi government.

"I was treated reasonably well," Carroll said of his captors. He thought that his abduction was done by criminals who were being opportunistic.  Their identity is unclear.

The 33-year-old Carroll was on assignment from The Guardian when he was taken from outside a house in the predominantly Shiite area of Sadr City Wednesday.
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