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"YOU ARE A PATHETIC HOSTAGE!" *PIC*
Posted By: StClair In Response To: CHIRAC WANTS NATIONAL INTEREST FIRST (StClair)
By Kerstin Gehmlich
PARIS (Reuters) - A French journalist released from five months of captivity in Iraq gave a gallows humor account of her experience on Tuesday, recalling how she spent more than 150 days blindfolded on a mattress in a pitch-dark cellar.
Florence Aubenas, a 44-year-old reporter with Liberation daily, arrived back in France on Sunday after she and her Iraqi guide Hussein Hanun al-Saadi were kidnapped during a reporting trip to a refugee camp on Jan. 5.
In a news conference often interrupted by laughter over her ironic account, Aubenas said her kidnappers made her wear a T-shirt reading "Titanic" asked her for the email address of French President Jacques Chirac.
Aubenas said she could not comment on the conditions leading up to her rescue but only talk about her time in captivity.
Just before their release, her driver suggested she should give their kidnappers her remaining money as a gift, a smiling Aubenas told a cramped room full of journalists.
"180 dollars, that's expensive! The hotel didn't merit that," she said to loud laughter.
Aubenas said she had not lost hope in the cellar.
"Never," she said. "You're not asking yourself whether you should hold on or not. You are just there," said Aubenas, who lost 12 kg on the kidnappers' diet of egg sandwiches and rice. She was allowed to make 24 steps a day to go to the toilet.
Aubenas said the head kidnapper, known as "the boss," had at one point called her a "pathetic hostage" because she argued over the text of a video recording to be published.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8789439&src=eDialog/GetContent
P.S.:
Here is her FULL testimony - but in French, at her newspaper "Libération":
http://liberation.fr/page.php?Article=304173
Florence Aubenas est grand reporter au quotidien Libération. Diplômée du Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ), promotion 1984, elle a travaillé pour Le Nouvel Economiste, avant d'entrer en 1986 au quotidien créé par Serge July.
"Elle est une grande professionnelle, habituée des zones à risques", a commenté le directeur de la rédaction de Libération, Antoine de Gaudemar. "Elle a un talent immense, elle aime partir en reportage, n'a pas froid aux yeux, mais n'a rien d'une tête brûlée", renchérit une de ses collègues.
Florence Aubenas a écrit plusieurs livres, notamment avec le philosophe et psychanalyste Miguel Benasayag "La Fabrication de l'information : les journalistes et l'idéologie de la communication" (1999) et "Résister, c'est créer" (2003) sur l'altermondialisme, et avec la Tunisienne Sihem Bensedrine, "Lettre à une amie irakienne (disparue)" (2003).
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