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Marines: Carroll Was Held Near Iraq Base

By ANTONIO CASTANEDA, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

(08-09) 18:12 PDT HABANIYAH, Iraq (AP) --

U.S. Marines who cracked the Jill Carroll kidnapping case say the American
journalist was held for a time in a home within sight of a sprawling U.S.
military base in western Iraq.

The Marines said the big break occurred May 19 when they searched a suspect's
home near the Taqqadum logistics base seven weeks after Carroll's release.
A young lieutenant linked the residence to intelligence reports in the case.

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One of the suspects is a member of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella
organization of Sunni Arab insurgent groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq,
said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell who announced the arrests. He said no decision
had been made on what legal action to take against the four.

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