Freed French Reporters Recall Kidnapping
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Iraqi kidnappers of two freed French reporters changed the hostages' location five times, hauling them around in a cardboard box stuffed into the back of a car, one of the men said Thursday after their release from the harrowing four-month drama.
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The managing editor of France's Le Figaro newspaper told a radio station Thursday that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq were still believed alive, even after militants' deadline passed for Paris to overturn a law banning Islamic head scarves or see the pair killed.
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BBC reporter Alan Johnston was reunited with his family Saturday after four months as a hostage in the Gaza Strip and said one of the hardest parts about his ordeal was imagining his parents' anguish.
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TWO French journalists were freed in Iraq yesterday, four months after they were snatched by Islamic militants. Christian Chesnot, 37, and Georges Malbrunot, 41, had been held since August after they were
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One of two French journalists released from captivity in Iraq says he saw other hostages who were later beheaded.
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PARIS, Sep 8  (IPS) - The two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq more  than three weeks back are still in  captivity despite efforts by  French and Iraqi leaders to secure their freedom.
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Militants in Iraq free French reporters Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, held hostage since August.
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As two French journalists arrive back in Paris after 124 days in the hands of Iraqi captors, questions are asked about why they were released.
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The two French hostages just released from captivity in Iraq spoke of the &quot;tough experience&quot; at the hands of their Iraqi captors who held them in captivity for four months.
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Monday&#39;s press comments on the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and gives the papers&#39; final verdicts on the summer Athens Olympics.
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Two French journalists were heading home to France on Wednesday after the end of a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq which left many unanswered questions about the government's handling of the crisis.
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PARIS -- Two French journalists released by militants in Iraq returned to a jubilant France yesterday and described a four-month ordeal during which masked gunmen shuttled them among five hide-outs and interrogated them at length as combat thundered nearby.
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TWO French journalists have been taken hostage by Islamic militants demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools.
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Two French reporters held hostage for four months in Iraq were released Tuesday and handed over to French authorities.
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Two French journalists were heading home to France on Wednesday after the end of a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq which left many unanswered questions about the government&#39;s handling of the crisis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - France said it had received word that two French reporters seized in Iraq were alive, and one of their employers claimed the kidnappers had handed them over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes the hostages could soon be released.    Separately, two U.S...
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The kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and the summer Athens Olympics are commented on, and some papers look at the results of the Chechen election.