Guardian reporter abducted in Iraq

[Rigorous Intuition]

A journalist for the Guardian newspaper is thought to have been kidnapped after going missing in Iraq.<br><br>It is believed Baghdad correspondent Rory Carroll may have been abducted by armed men while on assignment in the capital, a Guardian statement said.<br><br>The paper said it was urgently seeking information about the 33-year-old Republic of Ireland national. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4357284.stm">BBC</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Qutb]

It's always the liberal journalists that get abducted, for some strange mysterious reason. <p></p><i></i>

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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/rorycarroll/story/0,16647,1597145,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/roryca...45,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Guardian journalist freed in Iraq<br><br>Staff<br>Thursday October 20, 2005<br><br>Rory Carroll, the 33-year-old Guardian journalist kidnapped yesterday in Baghdad, was freed tonight.<br><br>The news of his freedom came in a telephone call from Carroll to his parents, Jo and Kate, at their home in Dublin.<br><br>His father Jo said: "He told me that he had been released, that he was perfectly OK and in an Iraqi government compound having a beer.<br><br>"He just said: 'I am safe and well and I have all my limbs on. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I was in my cell</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> and representatives of the Iraqi government came for me, they had a government car waiting. I have been in Baghdad all the time'.""<br><br>from being kidnapped to found in a cell,thats one lucky guy..<br><br>on edit:adding a link to his article about the risk to journalists in iraq<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1567737,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/S...37,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Reporters at risk<br><br>Journalists believe recent deaths and injuries among their number based in Iraq show US troops are getting out of control<br><br>Rory Carroll in Baghdad<br>Monday September 12, 2005<br>The Guardian"<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hmm@rigorousintuition>hmm</A> at: 10/20/05 3:06 pm<br></i>