Afghanistan: two kidnapped French journalists believed to be in good health
Friday, January 1, 2010
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- 28 January 2012: Wikinews Shorts: January 28, 2012
- 12 January 2012: Inquiry ordered into video of US troops urinating on Taliban fighters
- 30 September 2011: Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base
- 7 August 2011: 38 killed after US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
Two French journalists kidnapped on Wednesday north-east of the capital Kabul are believed to be in good health, although the condition of their three Afghan assistants is unknown.
"The two French journalists appear to be alive, in good health and being well treated," said a source involved in the attempts to release them.
According to another French journalist, suspected members of the Taliban captured them in the Kapisa province's Shinkai district, although the abductors have yet to claim responsibility.
A local spokesman confirmed that the group of two journalists from France 3, their translator and his brother and cousin had been abducted, and that Afghan security forces along with French soldiers from the local NATO mission were looking for them.
France Télévisions, who employs the journalists, has not confirmed the kidnapping, merely stating that they had received no news from them in the past 48 hours.
[edit] Sources
- Agence France-Presse. "Abducted French journalists believed to be in good health" — France 24, January 1, 2010
- "Two French journalists kidnapped in Afghanistan" — BBC News Online, December 31, 2009
