New York, April 14, 2004A French journalist abducted on Sunday
near Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, has been freed. The TV news agency Capa
Television said that its reporter Alexandre Jordanov was released today,
the Associated Press reported. No further details were available.
Jordanov and his cameraman, Ivan Cerieix, were abducted on Sunday, April
11, while filming clashes between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents after
an attack on U.S. convoy. Ceriex was released the next morning.
The two journalists were in Iraq working on a documentary film for French
TV channel Canal Plus and were separated when they took cover during the
fighting.
At least four other journalistsMichal Kubal and cameraman Petr Klima,
both with the public network Czech Television; Vit Pohanka of the public
station Czech Radio; and Soichiro Koriyama, a freelance Japanese photographer
on assignment for the Tokyo-based Asahi Weeklyare among the
several dozen foreigners reportedly missing or abducted by insurgents
in Iraq.

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