kqha.comBOSTON – Jill Carroll, the journalist held hostage for nearly three months in Iraq last year, has returned to the Middle East to report for the Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper spokesman said Wednesday.
Carroll has been working out of Cairo, Egypt, since last month, Monitor spokesman Jay Jostyn said.
“We haven’t determined how long she will be there,” Jostyn said.
Carroll took on the Cairo assignment after completing a fellowship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She analyzed the decline of international news bureaus in the changing newspaper industry during the semester she spent at the school’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press.
“We are really not saying anymore than that,” Jostyn said when asked whether Carroll asked to be posted in Cairo and whether there were any concerns for her safety.
Carroll was working as a freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor when she was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2006. She was released March 30.
The kidnappers, a formerly unknown group calling itself the Revenge Brigade, had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq. U.S. officials did release some female detainees but said the decision was unrelated to the demands.
