Early afternoon in Iraq
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It is already past noon. The net is quiet of new news about Jill. Someone at the Boston office of AP has not forgotten Jill. TV outlets around the country are running this fairly bald release. Two US soldiers died overnight. Five Iraqi’s died this morning. It is an ordinary day in Iraq.
At least, so it appeared when I first posted. It looks like the Sunni-Shia accord reached last night, either is not very far reaching or has not reached the streets yet. But Jill is mentioned:
“Our forces raided some suspected places, but she was not there,” said Maj. Falah
al-Mohammedawi, an official at the Interior Ministry. “We are watching the situation
closely.”
I suppose I believe that they are making some effort. It would be quite a feather in their cap, if they could recover her. But it seems far less likely than negotiating.
I wonder what today is like for Jim and Katie Carroll .
And for Jill.
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