Missing French journalist in Iraq begs for help on video [Female]

Expatica ^ | March 1, 2005 | AFP

[contemplator]

I sincerely hope she makes it out alive. Afterwards, we can argue politics with her till we're all blue in the face.

[freedumb2003]

Why these guys kidnap people from the country that supports them is beyond me.

[speed_addiction]

At least the terrorists were benevolent enough not to make her wear her panties on her head. </sarcasm>

[Mears]

Can you imagine the uproar from the MSM if she was being held by us in Gitmo?

Where's the outrage?

[Bahbah]

I sincerely hope she makes it out alive. Afterwards, we can argue politics with her till we're all blue in the face.

Well said.

[MisterRepublican]

How do we know these leftist journalist are not working with the terrorists? Remember the two Italian leftist journalist chicks who immediately praised their "kidnappers" once they were returned to Italy.

[PAR35]

a journalist with Liberation ... Another foreign reporter in Iraq, Giuliana Sgrena of Italy's Il Manifesto, was kidnapped early February

So someone in Iraq appears to be targeting Communist females.

[fight_truth_decay]

"We found the video of Florence Aubenas

Found?

[cricket]

I cannot imagine the conditions of how these prisoners are kept. Particularly, the women. . .and the fact that they are probably kept in some suburburban home makes it all the more surreal. . .but nontheless; still horrible to contemplate.

Sickens me that AbuGrahib was a national Media event; 'celebrated' by the Liberal Left . . .

[WorkingClassFilth]

I do not wish harm on this woman, but I believe that exactly this sort of thing needs to happen before the smear of media harlots finally get the message. Until then, these people only put themselves into the situations they find themselves. Frankly, I hope that no lives are risked on behalf of her rescue. Hopefully she will be released unharmed.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[fight_truth_decay]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting "No to terrorism!"

A French journalist abducted nearly two months ago, meanwhile, pleaded for help in a video that surfaced Tuesday, saying she was in failing health.

Florence Aubenas, 43, a veteran war correspondent for the leftist daily Liberation. CUT

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050301/D88IBJF00.html

[NorCalRepub]

most likely in their case a standard "Stockholm Syndrome"

[fight_truth_decay]

French hostage in 'second tape'

[Publius Scipio]

So someone in Iraq appears to be targeting Communist females.

Probably because these ignorant fools are actively seeking out these terrorists to help them get their story out. Evidently there is difference of opinion on the method of "getting the story out".

[thoughtomator]

A French journalist in Iraq ought to be suspected of collaboration first and foremost.

[pecadillo]

A French journalist in Iraq ought to be suspected of collaboration first and foremost.

Call me picky, but this mindset where everyone who didn't support the Iraq war is a collaborater is starting to get on my nerves. France disagreed very strongly with it and called us names -- so what? I want so much to believe we're more mature than this.

Hostages are grilled pretty thoroughly after rescue anyway, so it's not like she's just going to walk off on her merry froggy way, not for a while. If she was up to something, it will be brought to light.

[nonliberal]

Taking a French journalist hostage?

I'll take "Unclear on the Purpose" for $800, Alex.

[thoughtomator]

We've been seeing a lot of "journalism" from the enemy's perspective, literally, with video shot from the enemy lines, journalists on embed assignments with terrorists, and so on... for the purposes of making this analysis I am totally ignoring the fact that many of these papers have in fact been propaganda outlets for the enemy, and working on what they have actually done.

This is far more substantive than a "mindset" equating dissent with collaboration. I know the difference, thank you. Now please stop ignoring the very real evidence of collaboration in your own analysis.