After a second video is released, efforts to free Jill Carroll continue...

02.02.06 - Christian Science Monitor

BAGHDAD – Footage of the kidnapped reporter Jill Carroll, aired by Al Jazeera on Monday, has prompted fresh efforts to secure her release from across the globe.

On the streets of Baghdad, average Iraqis speak of how shaken and angry they've been left by the latest footage of a weeping Ms. Carroll, a freelancer on assignment for the Monitor when she was abducted. An impromptu group of Iraqi editors is getting together to work on Carroll's release, and Reporters Without Borders, an international journalists' advocacy group, has dispatched a team to the Middle East to coordinate a pan-Arab media effort for Carroll.

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Carroll was abducted on Jan. 7, along with her Iraqi interpreter Allan Enwiyah, after a failed attempt to meet with Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi at his office. As they drove away, they were set upon by kidnappers, who murdered Mr. Enwiyah.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0202/p04s01-woiq.html

considering that all they wanted was for women prisoners to be freed
And maybe having "reporters without borders" in on this is not so good:
http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona05172005.html

I really haven't figured out exactly the function or benefit that Reporters With Out Borders brings to the world in general except a function or two full of back patting ladder climbers trying to legitimize their spineless and impotent ability to break the world news through the American corporate media spin filter.

The fact that they piggy back thier names with Doctors Without Borders is as unimaginative and innovative as their industry as a whole.

Why do the good reporters have to suffer? I don't get it.