Another reporter covering Fallujah events kidnapped ...

Liberation's Aubenas no stranger to trouble spots

PARIS, March 1 (AFP) - Florence Aubenas, the French reporter who issued a desperate appeal for help Tuesday from her Iraqi captivity, is no stranger to tough situations.

A senior reporter for the past 18 years for the Left-wing Paris daily Liberation, Aubenas, 43, has covered many of the world's most challenging crisis points, such as Rwanda, Afghanistan or Kosovo.

"She is a great professional, who is used to danger zones," said Antonie de Gaudemar, the newsroom chief at Liberation.

"She has immense talent. She loves to go off on assignment. She's plucky but she's not reckless," said a colleague.

"Florence is a free woman who chose this calling of journalist," according to her mother, Jacqueline, a university professor and cinema historian.

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On her latest assignment to Iraq, Aubenas was reporting on the fate of Iraqis driven out of their homes after the American assault on the city of Fallujah.

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I'm so curious about Giuliana Sgrena's reporting her kidnappers saying: "The Americans don't want you to return alive to Italy."

How would they know that, and how could they have been so accurate, unless there was some sort of contact or relationship, either with the Americans or with people who work with the Americans? I find this very confusing.

don't want made public. I have an odd feeling this French journalist has the same story.

police uniforms. It is after all, THEIR COUNTRY.

and no other purpose. What sense does kidnapping a French citizen make otherwise? It seems that there are many seperate groups doing different things. Remember the incedent of the truck with Iraqi coins? Maybe that was plain robbery by a non-Insurgent group.

must have been feared to the point that no one screwed around much... lest they end up at Abu Ghraib. Heh heh heh... they did anyway... not funny.

discover what went on in Fallujah. Journalists have been warned.

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