Atwar BahjatĪn Iraqi reporter for Al Arabiya TV. The same group that kidnapped and released Aubenas also abducted and held Jill hostage. 5, 2005, she was released five months later. Florence AubenasĪ French journalist kidnapped in Iraq Jan.

Abu Rasha's home was the second location to which Jill was taken on the day of her kidnapping. During her first night of captivity, Jill was kept at his house in Baghdad, where he lived with his wife and children. Like Abu Ahmed, he was both a close lieutenant of Abu Nour's, and appeared to be a member of the Mujahideen Shura Council. One of Jill's kidnappers and boss of her guards, Abu Rasha was the leader of the mujahideen cell with which Jill spent most of her time. Jill spent more time with him and Abu Hassan than any other guards. Abu Qarrar said he was 26, and while Jill was held hostage, he left for an arranged marriage to a 13-year-old girl. Abu Qarrar was a heavy-set, non-athletic man with a tattoo of Arabic script on his left arm. He had not memorized much of the Koran, and he liked to watch girls on a music video channel when he thought nobody would see him. To Jill, Abu Qarrar seemed to be a young, immature newcomer to the mujahideen. Abu QarrarĪ lower-ranking guard of Jill, under Abu Ahmed. The leader of Jill's kidnappers, Abu Nour, aka Abdullah Rashid al Baghdadi, was the self-proclaimed head of the Mujahideen Shura Council of Iraq, the Sunni insurgency directorate.

Jill spent more time with him and Abu Qarrar than any other guards. He wore a suicide vest at the insurgents' safe house and kept a 9mm pistol by his side. She guesses his age at 32 and describes him as fit and athletic. Jill's impression was that Abu Hassan was more mature than the others, but also more sinister and calculating. Jill's main guard, who appeared to rank below Abu Ahmed, who in turn 'reported to' Abu Rasha, in turn was under the leadership of Abu Nour.

He was the only one of Jill's captors with a beard. He tried to convert Jill to Islam, showing her the similarities between Islam and Christianity, and pointing out the shared stories in the Koran and the Bible. Abu AliĪ participant in Jill's abduction, Abu Ali was in charge of one of the insurgent cells led by Abu Nour, but he was not a member of the Mujahideen Shura Council. 'Abu' means 'father,' or 'father of,' in Arabic. He also had read an Arabic translation of a Henry Kissinger biography, and was reading a translation of the old Dale Carnegie classic, 'How To Win Friends and Influence People' during Jill's captivity. He was both a close lieutenant of Abu Nour's, and appeared to be a member of the Mujahideen Shura Council. Abu AhmedĪbu Ahmed kept Jill at his house near Fallujah. The Christian Science Monitor's longtime driver in Baghdad, Adnan was driving Jill the day she was abducted and her interpreter, Alan, was killed.

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