An apparent deadline set by kidnappers holding U.S. journalist Jill Carroll in Iraq passed on Sunday with no word but an Interior Ministry intelligence officer said he expected any deadline to be extended.
Citing sources close to her captors, Kuwait's Al Rai TV said on February 10 that the kidnappers planned to carry out a threat to kill Carroll unless their demands were met by a February 26 deadline.
Al Rai declined to specify the kidnappers' demands but in previous videos, Carroll has said her captors were demanding that all female prisoners in Iraq be freed.
Carroll was kidnapped on a Baghdad street on January 7 and her translator was killed. Muslim leaders have joined her family, friends and colleagues in calling for her release.
There have been several deadlines that the terrorists have set, and there is still no word on Carroll's condition. My thoughts and prayers go out to Jill's family and friends. This is a horrible situation for them, and once again should serve as a reminder of what these terrorists are about - they do not care about rules of war or the Geneva Convention. They are about maximizing misery, death, despair, and destruction.
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