France ponders next move over Iraq hostages
France’s government today scrambled to map out its response to the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, but showed no immediate signs of being ready to surrender to the hostage-takers’ reported demands.
Islamic militants released a brief tape of Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot on Saturday and said they were holding the men to protest a French law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools, according to Arab TV station Al-Jazeera.
