Early morning in Baghdad
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In Baghdad it’s 3:00 AM Sunday February 26, the day Jill Carroll’s kidnappers have set as a deadline for their demands. There was reasonable press about Jill on Tuesday February 21, but the bombing of the Askawira Mosque on Wednesday February 22 caused Iraq to erupt and pushed Jill to the back pages. Those wanting to negotiate her release would have found it quite hard. Three hours ago Agence France Press posted “Iraq’s Sunnis and Sadr’s movement make peace“. Hopefully, this will make negotiation for her release possible. Since we are going to take more time on the Dubai Ports World deal, we could focus on Jill for a bit. I have yet to find a good e-mail address that might be timely. It is only hours to sunrise.
