Posted on 11/28/2004 11:26:39 AM PST by Ginifer
New footage has emerged of two French reporters taken hostage in Iraq showing both men apparently well and in good spirits, the Sunday Times reported.
Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, who marked their 100th day in captivity on Saturday, appear on a CD-Rom obtained by the paper, which said the recording was believed to have been made earlier this month.
The two are the longest-held Western hostages in Iraq.
Mr Chesnot, 37, reportedly says he and Mr Malbrunot are "here because there are security issues and investigations regarding our identities as we are journalists and the Islamic Army is doing the investigations."
Speaking in Lebanese Arabic, he says they are being treated well by their captors, "although their hospitality is not like a five-star hotel".
"The behaviour of the Islamic Army has been very good. There is no violence involved. We eat three times a day and we get lots of tea and everything is available," he adds.
Mr Malbrunot, 41, also speaks on the film in French, telling his family he is well and the conditions are good, the paper said.
It quoted Mr Chesnot's brother, Thierry, as saying: "This is very good news indeed."
Mr Chesnot, a freelancer who works for Radio France Internationale, and Mr Malbrunot, a freelancer for Le Figaro newspaper, were abducted along with their Syrian driver Mohammed al-Jundi while on their way to Najaf south of Baghdad.
US troops found al-Jundi two weeks ago in Fallujah, when they attacked the rebel stronghold, and he subsequently said he had been separated from the two Frenchmen in September.
"Hostages" my ass. More like collaborators. They are French after all.
Obviously, they're amongst friends...
Semper Fi
My thoughts exactly.
Right up to the point where the savages shave the hair off their heads (as the Parisians did to Nazi collaborators), then shave their heads completely off with rusty butter knives.
Quaint phrase, that. Who else refers to these turds as "the islamic army?" (Besides the French, who wouldn't know an army if it saved them from the Germans...twice.)
Why do you suppose that they are being held so long? Are the muslim murderes waiting for a new resolution of the French headscarf issue? Or are they happy to have such eager collaborators in their midst?
"The behaviour of the Islamic Army has been very good. There is no violence involved. We eat three times a day and we get lots of tea and everything is available," he adds.
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..and for this they only had to convert to Islam..turn up their a$$ and give their first born son to allah..pretty even trade for a current frenchman.
They are with their "brothers" !!!
You got that right.
This is getting curiouser and curiouser - the French, after all, "are on their side" - the terrorists,as one Frenchman said it.
So what exactly is the goal of holding two friendlies from France? Certainly no beheading and there aren't any demands that I have heard.
Is this some kind of joke or what?
Are you saying there are demands upon the French; I have watched French TV often but have never heard of any if there are. Perhaps the demands haven't been disclosed.
As I understand it, the demands are for the French gov't to remove the headscarf ban for schools.
I understand the French are in bed with the Islamos but what exactly are the hostage takers demands of the French?
"As I understand it, the demands are for the French gov't to remove the headscarf ban for schools."
Okay, you are correct, I do remember that demand and the French have said they won't bow to the damands.
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