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"I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible," the 28-year-old Christian Science Monitor stringer said in a calm voice, adding she was speaking on Feb. 2, nearly a month after armed men in Baghdad abducted her. "There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That's all."
The video was delivered earlier Thursday to Al Rai's Baghdad office and was aired in its entirety, reports the Associated Press.
In Baghdad, a U.S. Embassy spokesman Dennis Culkin said Thursday that American authorities do not comment on such tapes, especially before they have been authenticated.
A statement from Christian Science Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim said: "It is always difficult to see someone speaking under coercion and under these circumstances." He added, "We remain in constant contact with Jill's family and are still doing everything possible to obtain Jill's release."
On Jan. 30, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast a video showing Carroll weeping as she appealed for the release of female Iraqi prisoners.
Late last month, the U.S. military freed five Iraqi women detainees, but American officials insisted the release was not linked to the demand by Carroll's abductors.
