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| 03 September 2004 | Friday | 17 Rajab 1425 |
French minister says hostages no longer in hands of abductors
PERPIGNAN, Sept 2: Two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq are no longer in the hands of their abductors, French Culture and Communications Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said on Thursday.
"We know that they are alive and no longer in the hands of the abductors who had held them," he told journalists in Perpignan, southern France.
The minister added however that "our two compatriots are not in complete security with French forces." The French media was abuzz on Thursday with speculation about the fate of the journalists. -AFP
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