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 | A kidnappers' deadline expired Jan 21 2006 with no word on the fate of US reporter Jill Carroll, seen here, whose father appealed to her captors in Iraq to spare his daughter's life. click to open  |  | Hostage American reporter Jill Carroll appears in a silent 20-second video aired Jan 17 2006 by Al-Jazeera television, which said her abductors gave the United States 72 hours to free female prisoners in Iraq or she would be killed. Al-Jazeera would not tell The Associated Press how it received the tape, but the station issued its own statement calling for Carroll's release. click to open  |
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