BAGHDAD, March 30 (Xinhua) -- American female journalist Jill Carroll has been freed in Baghdad after taken hostage on Jan. 7, a Sunni politician told reporters on Thursday.

    Jill Carroll, 28, who was freelance for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party.

    "She is free and is with me right now," Tareq al-Hashimi, the head of the Sunni party, told the media.

    Carroll was kidnapped in Baghdad's western Adel district when gunmen attacked her car and killed her interpreter.

    The U.S. journalist was on her way to conduct an interview with Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Iraqi Consensus Front, a Sunni Arab alliance.

    Her captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had threatened to kill Carroll unless all women detainees in the U.S. and Iraqi prisons were released. Enditem