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Iraq-Jordan
French daily director in Baghdad to con West find reporter
2005-03-13
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.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Sure. It's getting so hard to funnel money to the insurgents any other way .....
Posted by: anon   2005-03-13 10:22:36 AM  

#6  Fred, I don't think that pic is workplace safe....
Posted by: Ptah   2005-03-13 9:06:50 PM  

#5  At least he is announcing his presence this time, since the secret approach did not work so well. Meanwhile, the terrorists' see ***Ka-ching, Ka-ching*** in his visit.

"This may be the gift from Allah that we have been praying for, Mahmoud."
"Yes, Achmed, this infidel may solve our cash flow problems."
"I used to scoff at your reading of infidel theories of investments, Mahmoud, I thought that it was Un-Islamic, but now I see that our detention of the infidel female Florence Aubenas is a wise and crafty long-term investment.
"Yes, Achmed. Just another way of financing the war, when our Syrian connection was severed."
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-03-13 12:49:11 PM  

#4  Sure. It's getting so hard to funnel money to the insurgents any other way .....
Posted by: anon   2005-03-13 10:22:36 AM  

#3  I wouldn't be surprised if the director gets kidnapped himself.
Posted by: Shaing Elmoluper1664   2005-03-13 10:09:21 AM  

#2  I hope this frog asshole takes some cues for the Italians and clues the U. S. military in on what he is up to, distasteful as it may be for him. It would be far less unfrotunate if we killed a couple of the enemy frogs trying to breach oud checkpoint unannounced.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-03-13 9:58:59 AM  

#1  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.


In other words, he wants to drive home the difference between the EU and the Coalition. What's the French word for 'grovel' again?
Posted by: Slomorong Chomoque7151   2005-03-13 9:22:12 AM  

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