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Iraq-Jordan
Paper Says French Reporter Likely Abducted
2005-01-11
The French newspaper whose reporter in Baghdad has been missing since last week said Monday it seemed increasingly likely that she was abducted. Iraqi and French officials say a search is under way for Florence Aubenas of the French daily Liberation and her Iraqi translator, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi. They were last seen Wednesday morning leaving the reporter's Baghdad hotel. Liberation's managing editor, Antoine de Gaudemar, said the pair did not appear to have been picked up by U.S. or Iraqi forces or been involved in an accident. But other hypotheses "like kidnapping, are little by little taking on plausibility," even though there is still no solid confirmation of that, de Gaudemar wrote in an editorial published Monday.
Posted by:Fred

#11  I've got an idea: why don't we send them Dan Rather and his friends as replacements?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-11 2:25:10 PM  

#10  Jacques, you've lost ANOTHER reporter?

what can we do to help?
Posted by: anonymous2u   2005-01-11 1:22:02 PM  

#9  Shouldn't the headline read "abducted", if by "abducted" you mean filming propoganda for the enemy.
Posted by: Mark E.   2005-01-11 1:02:52 PM  

#8  I've led such a sheltered life. The things I don't know!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-11 12:42:41 PM  

#7  The Mad Mullahs have this covered, IIRC, sentencing blasphemers to death, imprisonment, and public whipping. That was the order given in the press release.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-11 12:16:55 PM  

#6  And not necessarily in that order.
Posted by: ed   2005-01-11 12:14:21 PM  

#5  tw - It's a Code 187: Murder, Death, Kill. I saw it in Demolition Man, so it must be true. :-)
Posted by: .com   2005-01-11 12:13:13 PM  

#4  uh..yeah..that's it. Not just murdered...but killed too!! :-)
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-11 12:12:33 PM  

#3  Murdered and killed, 2b? ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-11 12:03:46 PM  

#2  Liberation’s managing editor, Antoine de Gaudemar, said the pair did not appear to have been picked up by U.S. or Iraqi forces or been involved in an accident. But other hypotheses "like kidnapping, are little by little taking on plausibility,"

ROFL! Great investigative skills, Liberation. Hey, I'm not Sherlock, but I'm guessing that in less than one week's time, I could determine from here, and wearing pajamas, with no Iraqi phone book at my disposal, that she wasn't being held by the US military or in an accident.

These guys are DUMB. No wonder they sent that poor girl off into a situation with a high probability that she would end up getting raped, murdered and killed.
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-11 10:06:42 AM  

#1  Time for France to ramp up to pay out more ramson money to the jihadists. Oh wait...France says it doesn't play that game. Rightttttt.
Posted by: Mark Z.   2005-01-11 7:25:23 AM  

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