French journalists in 'good health'

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7881190F-497F-405D-9040-040E41A91B0A.htm

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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August have in a video recording said they are in good health and hope to be freed once their captors have investigated their identities, London's Sunday Times says.


The newspaper reported that it had obtained the CD-Rom with the recording, believed to have been made earlier this month.

The paper said the recording showed Christian Chesnot and fellow hostage Georges Malbrunot apparently in good spirits, more than three months after their capture by a group calling itself the Islamic Army.

"The behaviour of the Islamic Army has been very good. There is no violence involved," Chesnot was quoted as saying in French-accented Lebanese Arabic.

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1. They've been in captivity 100 days now

Plenty of time for them to have pulled together their notes into some publishable form to be released just as soon as they get out. Their reports from the inside ought to be illuminating if they are allowed to come to light. In the back of my mind I can't help but think that, while using this time to put together a book to tell the story of who their kidnappers are and why they are being held, Chesnot and Malbrunot were to a certain degree fearful of a special psy-ops type operation to intercept them to keep them from talking. Since the two were taken, I have always felt an undertone of US involvement, and not in a good way, I hate to say.