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...transition is familiar to Georges Malbrunot, a Paris correspondent for Le Figaro newspaper, who spent four months as a hostage in Iraq in 2004, before being released and flown back to Paris to intense media attention. "When you get out you have a euphoria. Everybody likes you. They introduce you around. You are a kind of saint," he tells me. "And then if you don't move on from being an 'ex-hostage' you can get into trouble." What strikes Malbrunot after watching hours of Betancourt's televised interviews this week is her quiet command of her extraordinary situation, which...
...trend that if you get held for a few months, either they get tired of holding you or work out a deal through the Iraqis." He mentioned that all of the journalists who had been held for long stretches of time-which includes Giuliana Sgrena, Florence Aubenas, George Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot- were released after an initial deadline had passed, and they had all been held by Sunni groups...
There's nothing like topping off a national celebration with some vindictive settling of scores. Within hours of the Dec. 21 release of two French journalists who had been held hostage in Iraq for four months, politicians, security officials - and even former abductees Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot themselves - were trading accusations over the efforts to free them from their captors. The main target: conservative legislator Didier Julia and his team of dilettante sleuths, who sought to bypass official attempts to secure the pair's freedom by dealing with shadowy Middle Eastern contacts of their own. Their media-hyped campaign...
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