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"The irony of Carroll’s kidnapping is that it has been journalists like herself who have taken great risks to immerse themselves in the real Iraq to get the real stories. Stories not about the war itself, but about the war’s impact on average Iraqis. “Journalists are here to tell the world about the occupation, so kidnapping a journalist is going to hide the truth,” said Muthana Harith al-Dari on Wednesday. Dari, a leader of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Associations, an umbrella group for a number of leading Sunni clerics, issued a plea to the kidnappers to let Carroll free. “She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused her articles on telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering.” http://www.italknews.com/view_story.php?menu=&submenu=World&sid=1223