U.S. female journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7, has asked people to meet her kidnappers' demand as soon as possible in order to secure her release, according to a latest videotape aired by a private Kuwaiti satellite channel on late Thursday.

    KUWAIT CITY, Feb. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. female journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7, has asked people to meet her kidnappers' demand as soon as possible in order to secure her release, according to a latest videotape aired by a private Kuwaiti satellite channel on late Thursday.

    "I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible. There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That's all," said Carroll, who was wearing a headscarf and sitting before a wall decorated by a tapestry in the tape.

    Carroll, 28, a freelance journalist working for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was abducted on Jan. 7 by a group of gunmen in the al-Adel district in western Baghdad after she left the office of a prominent Sunni Arab leader.

    The kidnappers have demanded the U.S. forces and the Iraqi interim government to release all Iraqi women prisoners.  Enditem