BAGHDAD The founding director of France's left-leaning newspaper Liberation arrived in Baghdad on Friday to try to contribute to efforts to find kidnapped reporter Florence Aubenas.
These commie tricks are getting a little old. | Serge July said he would use the working visit to the Iraqi capital, which is being coordinated with the French embassy in Baghdad, to explain through the Iraqi media the growing Europe-wide campaign for Aubenas's release.
Which consists of a lot of talk. Ya know, if you only had troops on the ground in Iraq ... | Aubenas, a senior correspondent for Liberation, and her Iraqi interpreter, Hussein Hanun Al Saadi, vanished after leaving her Baghdad hotel on January 5. July started his mission by visiting Saadi's family.
Then he had lunch, smoked a cigarette, sipped some really nice wine, and took a nap. | Last week, the unidentified abductors released a video which showed the Frenchwoman looking gaunt and dishevelled, begging for help.
Nope, not doing nuttin' for me at all. |
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