Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll has been freed after some three months in captivity, Iraq police and the leader of the Islamic Party said Thursday. Her editor said she was in good condition, the AP reported.
"She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine," said David Cook, Washington bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor.
Carroll, 28, was kidnapped on Jan. 7 in Baghdad's western Adil neighborhood. Her translator died in the attack.
Her captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be executed if that didn't happen.
Meanwhile, gunmen in speeding cars killed a police commando as he was leaving his house in south Baghdad Thursday, and drive-by shooters killed a lawyer as she got out of a taxi in the southern city of Basra, police said.
Bombings and other attacks in Baghdad killed a policeman and injured a dozen Iraqis.
The U.S. military also reported the death Thursday of an American soldier in Fallujah, west of Baghdad in the province of Anbar. The soldier died Tuesday from wounds sustained in fighting, the military said.
Police also discovered the body of a man who had been strangled in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah.
