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Journo Kidnapers demands met!

get out of jail | 18.01.2006 17:34 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Surprising news is coming in that the U.S. have released the iraqi female held in captivity in Iraq. However, it's just a coincidence that the release should happen at the same time as those holding an american women hostage issued demands that called for the release of said hostages...

Iraq's ministry of 'justice' informed the BBC a couple of hours ago that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq have been released early because there was insufficient evidence to charge them.

Those holding Jill Carroll issued a statement yesterday saying that the US journalist would be killed unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. It is not the first time that the abductors of Western hostages in Iraq have called for the release of women prisoners.

In October 2004, Briton Ken Bigley and two American hostages were beheaded after demands for the release of female prisoners were ignored. At the time the Bush administration said that only two women were being held in Iraq - Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash and Rihab Taha, known to the media as Dr Germ and Mrs Anthrax.

In November 2004, British aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted and later murdered. Before her death she appeared in a similar hostage video calling for the release of women prisoners.

The U.S. officials have so far refused to confirm today news for the release of six women but say that any release would connected to the demands of the kidnappers.

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Update - US not up for releasing the Iraqi detainees

20.01.2006 12:03

The BBC seem to have been given bogus info or else there has been some back tracking in Iraq.

Reuters is reporting that Iraq said on Thursday U.S. forces 'planned' to release six Iraqi woman detainees but Washington was now denying that such a move was imminent. An Iraqi Justice Ministry spokesman said freeing the six, who are among eight women U.S. forces say they are holding as suspected insurgents, was not linked to an ultimatum from those holding Jill Carroll to release all female detainees in Iraq and U.S. officials in Washington said there were no plans to speed up the release of Iraqi women detainees or to free them in the near future. "There is no expected resolution of their cases in the near future," Carpenter told Reuters. "There is no accelerated process with regards to the women and how it relates to the kidnapped journalist in question," he added.

So, looks like there haven't been ANY Iraqi women released and little chance the americans would let it happen before the hostage is killed.

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