Source: BBC News
The Christian Science Monitor journalist whom the government left for dead, and her family continued to pray for her return, has finally been released by her captors.
She doesn't know why she was kidnapped.
Jill Carroll, who works for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was abducted by unknown gunmen in west Baghdad on 7 January.
She told Iraqi TV she had been treated well and was looking forward to being reunited with her family.
Ms Carroll's release comes a week after the freeing of three other Western hostages - a Briton and two Canadians.
"I'm just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family," Ms Carroll said in a brief interview in English shown on Baghdad television.
"I don't know why I was kidnapped," said the 28-year-old journalist," who was wearing a headscarf.
She said that she did not know where she had been held and "what was going on", adding that she had been allowed to watch television and read a newspaper only once.
She wasn't allowed to do much or roam outside of her room, but she says she was treated well.
Ms Carroll said she had been only allowed to move between her room and the bathroom.
However, she stressed that her captors treated her "very well".
"They never hit me. I was kept in a safe place with nice furniture, plenty of food. I was allowed to take showers," she said.
She was dropped off in western Baghdad at the offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party, and reporters say she appears to be in good health.
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