(Xinhua) -- The U.S.-led coalition forces have arrested four Iraqis suspected of abducting a U.S. female journalist who was kidnapped earlier in the year and then released, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. "Coalition forces have detained four Iraqi men that we believe have been involved in the kidnapping of Jill Carroll," Major General William Caldwell, U.S. military spokesman, told reporters in a news briefing in Baghdad. Carroll, a reporter of the U.S. Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped and her Iraqi interpreter was killed in western Baghdad on Jan. 7. She was later released on March 30. The spokesman showed pictures of a hot spot area between Baghdad and Fallujah, west of the capital, which he said have been suspected by his soldiers. "Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were able to identify the location in which we believe Jill Carroll was held," Caldwell said.
Carroll's captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, hadthreatened to kill her unless all women detainees in the U.S. and Iraqi prisons were released.