Florence Aubenas is a French journalist, taking hostage on January 5, 2005 in Iraq along with her translator Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
FlorenceAubenas, a seasoned correspondent for the French daily Liberation, and her fixer Hussein Hanoun, a Shi'ite from the Saadi tribe and former fighter pilot in Saddam Hussein's air force, were taken to an adjacent room.
Aubenas and her fixer Hanoun were kidnapped at gunpoint on January 5 at the University of Baghdad while she was trying to do a story on Fallujah refugees - a taboo theme for both the occupiers and Sunni Arabs.
Aubenas is now free, 12 kilograms slimmer, still in love with Iraq, even though she knows - as any other independent-minded journalist - it's now absolutely impossible to work like one has to, not embedded but "going to talk to people in the streets".
For myself, Florence was the name of a city, alongside gently sloping hills near the Arno river, a city dedicated to the beauty and softness; and Hussein was a descendant of the Prophet and the name of a king.
Florence and Hussein have to be released as soon as possible to reassure their families and friends.
With the pen of FlorenceAubenas, the facts lost of their irrationality and of their opacity and were explained by stakes that the actors in Algeria wanted to hide.
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