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| This blogger has moved |
| 03.04.05 (7:38 pm) [edit] |
This will be my final post on this blog. I know there are those who have linked me and I will do my best to let you all know personally so you will not have a link to a dead site. The site will stay up, at least for awhile, because I have paid for it.
I have not stopped blogging but have joined with a group that is keeping me busier than I thought I would be and there is just not enough time to give justice to both blogs.
If you have linked me I would appreciate your changing that link to point to Pourquoi Pas?.
If you will take the time to visit you will find a group of people fighting for peace and justice around the world. At the moment our members are from the US, Canada, New Zealand, Peru, Malaysia and of course, France.
Thanks so much if you have supported me in the past year here at Bouillabaisse in any way.
Dianne Maire
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| Controversial French MP to Join Aubenas's Search |
| 03.03.05 (11:19 am) [edit] |
Download 'Florence Aubenas hostage video.wmv'
Appearing alone in front of a maroon-colored background, Mme Aubenas looked tired, distraught, and in obvious bad health. Her hair uncombed, she was dressed in a white sweater and grasped her knees with her arms as she spoke.
"My name is Florence Aubenas. I'm French. I'm journalist in Liberation. Please help me. My health is very bad. I'm very bad psychologically also. Please it's urgent now. Help me. I ask especially Mr Didier Julia, the French deputy. Please Mr Julia, help me, it's urgent. Mr Julia, help me."
Mme Aubenas, a veteran war correspondent for the daily Liberation, and her Iraqi translator, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi, were last seen leaving her Baghdad hotel. The video was dropped at the offices of an international news agency in Baghdad. It was not possible to verify the tape's authenticity or when it was made.
Before the video, there had been no firm word on the fate of the 43-year-old who previously has covered Kosovo, Algeria, Rwanda, and Afghanistan in her 19 years with newspaper.
French lawmaker Didier Julia, whose name became known last year with his attempts to save the two abducted French journalists, has been asked by the French government to cooperate in the search.
Didier Julia, who has been cited in a criminal investigation for "communication with a foreign power against the interests of the French state", appealed for the "freedom" to mount a rescue attempt. The government, his colleagues in President Jacques Chirac's UMP party and senior editors at Libération all said it was not desirable that Julia should become involved.
The centre-right deputy was an apologist for the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. His attempts to free two kidnapped French journalists last year - which are alleged to have delayed their actual release by several weeks - are believed by the French security services to have been inspired, or manipulated, by Syria. The unofficial Julia rescue mission ended in farce and public exchanges of insults between the parliamentarian and French diplomats.
Liberation argues that the naming of Didier Julia has given "political connotations" to what seemed like a crime committed merely for ransom. Mr Julia, the paper notes, is an old "member of the pro-Syrian and pro-Iraqi lobbies within the UMP".
The paper believes that Ms Aubenas was forced by her kidnappers to mention Mr Julia as part of what it calls "a coded message to the French authorities".
It thinks the kidnapping may have been "hijacked for geostrategic reasons" with the aim of "bringing pressure to bear on President Chirac" following his recent statements calling for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and supporting the democratic process in Iraq.
Another woman journalist in Iraq, Giuliana Sgrena of the left-wing Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, was abducted by gunmen in Baghdad on Febrary 4.
She appeared in a video last month begging for her life and warning foreigners to leave the country. She was held by a previously unheard of group called Mujahedeen Without Borders.
More than 190 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in the past year. At least 13 foreigners remain in the hands of their captors, more than 30 were killed and the rest were freed or escaped.
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| Whoever you are, please let Florence & Hussein go |
| 03.01.05 (8:32 pm) [edit] |
(Crossposted from Pourquoi Pas?)
Second video cassette released today. Florence obviously in pitiful health, both physically and psychologically.
Weirdest of all: not a single demand by the captors - no money, no political demands, no ransom, no nothing.
Watching political analysts on TV tonight, it sounds like a really odd story. Saw an interview with her mom on TV. She's lost as to what's going on.
For those interested, here is an English version of a site that keeps up to date with the news from France on this sad issue.
Reporters sans Frontières
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| Bush's Potemkin Global Village |
| 03.01.05 (9:23 am) [edit] |
Sarah of What's Past Is Prologue posts the following at Pourquoi Pas? which I am cross-posting here in order to bring more attention to it. Please do follow the links especially if you live in the Bush bubble.
by Tom Tomorrow
Click on the thumbnail to view larger image.
Also a creepy description from TomDispatch of Bush's hermetically-sealed limo travelling through the emptied streets on his European Tour, which of course was described quite differently by the MSM of carefully vetted Gannon-style journalists to spin this grandiose-travelling-Gree n-Zone-in-a-bubble.
Think the Europeans are being won over by the propaganda and smiling handshakes the same way Americans are? Not if you take into account Bush's public humiliation of Vladimir Putin, and his nannyish lecturing of European heads of state (see TomDispatch article.) Here is a short little primer regarding that falling American dollar and why the E.U. will definitely be lifting the arms embargo currently against China.
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