Hope for kidnapped French reporters, Iraq's northern oil exports halted
AFP, September, 2004
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — France held its breath for two of its reporters kidnapped in Iraq, while the war-torn country's ailing economy was dealt a massive blow after a key export pipeline suffered its biggest post-war attack.
The pair abducted August 20 on the perilous road between Baghdad and Najaf are "alive, in good health and being well treated" but still captive, one French diplomat said, on condition of anonymity.
"There is hope and a great chance of a happy outcome. When will this happen? No one can tell. Maybe today, tomorrow or the day after that, but the situation in Iraq is such that it could take not much to scupper the whole process."
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Hopes mounted for their release despite the killings reported on Thursday of three Turkish nationals by a group linked to suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
France has been engaged in frantic ...
