French reporter's disappearance 'may not be kidnapping'

The French prime minister appeared to suggest today that the disappearance of a woman reporter in Iraq may not be a simple kidnapping, saying her situation is different from that of two other journalists who were held hostage there.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s comments to parliament, while cryptic, were more than the government has previously said about what might have happened to Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi translator, who have been missing for nearly a month.