Kidnapped Irish journalist in Iraq, released

A high ranking source at the Iraqi ministry of interior announced the release of the correspondent of the British "the Guardian daily," the Irish Rory Carroll who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Wednesday.

In the first reactions, the Irish foreign minister Darmout Aherin expressed satisfaction over this news. He expressed his government gratitude for all who helped the release of Carroll.

In London, a spokeswoman for the Guardian paper said that Carroll is secure and his situation is good and that he contacted his family and talked with British officials.

The said journalist who has been in Iraq since the beginning of the year for the British paper and was interviewing one Iraqi family over the beginning of the trial of the toppled former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein before his kidnapping.