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A US freelance journalist who was released two weeks ago after being kidnapped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad says she is “incredibly grateful to those who worked for my release”.
In her first comments on social media since she was freed by Iran-backed militia group Kataib Hezbollah, Shelly Kittleson says: “So many people – including but not limited to government officials, press freedom organisations, and my wonderful community of fellow journalists and friends – put an immense amount of effort into ensuring that the level of attention to my case remained high. Thank you all so very, very much.”
The abduction on 31 March came amid ongoing attacks by Iran and its allied Iraqi Shia militias on US-associated targets across Iraq and the region since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
