Guardian Journalist Rory Freed

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Guardian journalist missing in Iraq

Statement from the Guardian
Wednesday October 19, 2005


The Guardian today confirmed that its Baghdad correspondent Rory Carroll, an Irish citizen, is missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq.

Rory Carroll, 33, was on assignment in Baghdad earlier today when he went missing. It is believed Mr Carroll may have been taken by a group of armed men.

The Guardian is urgently seeking information about Mr Carroll's whereabouts and condition.
 
8.30pm

Guardian journalist freed in Iraq

Staff
Thursday October 20, 2005


Rory Carroll, the 33 year-old Guardian journalist kidnapped yesterday in Baghdad, was freed tonight.
The news of his freedom came in a telephone call from Carroll to his parents, Jo and Kate, at their home in Dublin.

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.

"He just said: 'I am safe and well and I have all my limbs on. I was in my cell and representatives of the Iraqi government came for me, they had a government car waiting. I have been in Baghdad all the time'."
 
I think the shocking part of this is - "having a BEER"? It's a flogging offence just down the road!

Phew - that is really, really good to read.
 
With the ease the mighty blues brushed the hammers aside at the weekend, it could have been Roy Carroll
 
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