- The father of abducted American reporter Jill Carroll on Friday pleaded with her captors to spare her life "for the betterment of your cause." As the kidnappers' Friday deadline passed with no word on Jill Carroll's fate, Jim Carroll told Al-Arabiya, an Arab television station, that his 28-year-old daughter is an "innocent person" whose death would do little toward achieving their demand that all female Iraqi detainees be released