 The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Monday that Iraqi authorities have informed him that kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and they are optimistic about her release. Zalmay Khalilzad said he had spoken with Iraq's interior minister "and he said that based on the information that he has, that she is alive and that they have information with regard to where she might be held." Khalilzad told Fox News the minister was "optimistic about her release." The news comes a day after the deadline set Carroll's kidnappers in a message this month to a Kuwaiti television station passed without any new message from her abductors. Meanwhile, sectarian violence appeared to be receding throughout the country and Sunni Arabs signaled they may be ready to return to talks to form a new Iraqi government. ...
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