The Christian Science Monitorreports that one of their reporters, Jill Carroll, has been abducted in Iraq. She worked as a freelance reporter for the paper.
"I saw a group of people coming as if they had come from the sky," recalled Ms. Carroll's driver, who survived the attack. "One guy attracted my attention. He jumped in front of me screaming, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' with his left hand up and a pistol in his right hand."
One of the kidnappers pulled the driver from the car, jumped in, and drove away with several others huddled around Carroll and her interpreter, said the driver, who asked not to be identified. "They didn't give me any time to even put the car in neutral," he recounted.
The Monitor also released a statement about the incident which says her Iraqi interpreter was killed in the attack. Editor & Publisher also has an article about the abduction of the Monitor reporter which says the story was blacked out by major U.S. media outlets.
