Monday, March 28. 22h04 - Support from The Guardian

«The journalists at the Guardian are most concerned at the fate of Florence Aubenas. The few journalists who have been prepared to spend any length of time in Baghdad since the war are incredibly brave and deserve the support of the entire international journalistic community. They represent our trade at its best. Our hearts go out to Florence's family and colleagues and we will do anything we can to help.»
Alan Rusbridger, editor, the Guardian.

Saturday, Feb 24. - 50

Kvindek tagoj sen vi !
Fünfzig Tage ohne Sie !
Fifteen days without you !
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See you !
Auf Wiedersehen !
Ghis revido !
Rovo

Wednesday, Feb 23. - Ship'log from Maud Fontenoy (somewhere in Pacific Ocean, 4000 km from the Peruvian coast)

Today, I thought particularly about Ingrid Bettancourt, who has been kidnapped in Colombia for 3 years, and about Florence Aubenas, kidnapped in Iraq. Please, don't forget them!

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 22h53 - Support

To Florence and Hussein
Be strong, take heart. We think very extremely of you and to your closest relatives. And to all those who risk their lives for the freedom of the information.
You are great.
Pumax

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 21h21 – Take heart

I wish of any heart that these two persons will be released! I put myself in place of their family and closest relatives and I address all my support to them!
It’s so unjust!!
Take heart and don’t become discouraged.
Petite brunette

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 19h20 – To the avant garde of your own liberty

In this Iraq where one risks his life with each step, Florence Aubenas and Hanoun Al-Saadi give us a formidable lesson: nothing is more fragile than the freedom which initially starts with that to live. As many of their colleagues, they do not have fear to bring into play this freedom to recall us, who live in the excessive comfort of the overinformation, that the research of the truth always costs a very high price. Never let us forget it. Therefore, I insist to say to their family, to their nearest relatives, to their colleagues at Libération how much the French can and must be proud of them. They are the avant-garde of our own freedom.
Arnaud de Montebourg (a French deputy)

Wednesday, Feb. 23., 2005. 17h26 – A thought about them

I say to you that we are all behind you. I have a pious thought about you and wishes of all my heart that you be free but also free to do your job as you need. You are the voices, the eyes and the legs of all of us, of the whole world. Long live the freedom of the press, long live the freedom to be informed. I am sure that you, Florence and Hussein, will return to us without forgetting our brave and worthy Italian colleague Giuliana Sgrena. Florence, your beautiful
feather misses us so much ...
Release them... release them... in the name of a whole people
Mamadou Diallo (Senegal)

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 15h26 - Just a thought amongst others

I am just a teenager but that touches me more than one can imagine... I find that the job of journalist is one of the most beautiful in the world, and despite their lives are threatened at every moment, nevertheless they continue to give us the best of them so that we do not stay ignorant about the truth....
And this is what occurs when one has courage to want to tell the truth.... All that I've to say is that I am of any heart with Florence Aubenas and her guide, Hussein! I really hope to see them back in France very soon...
And I conclude by saying that we must not forget them and that we must think of them at often as we can....
Laurettita

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 14h52 - Florence, Hussein, Giuliana, Ingrid...

At each time that a man or a woman is removed, which could be his or her nationality, that he or she is a journalist, a politician or from another profession, our freedoms are attacked. You went there alone to bring us back information so that we can better apprehend the world
which surrounds us. So that is the least we can do that we mobilize for you and your families who are waiting for you.
In a way, for me, each one of you fights against the obscurantism, whatever it is, then we have to light the flame of the hope, so that very soon you will be among us.
Nuage changeant

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 11h59 – Just to say to you

Just to say to you that you are not forgotten, that you don’t give up, that we hope that your kidnappers will change their mind, that they will lean good with dimensions and that you will
return quickly among your closest relatives.
See you
Rolando

Wednesday, Feb. 23., 2005. 11h19 – Support

I wish to express my sincere support to the family of Florence Aubenas so that they will not discouraged, my admiration too for the worthy way with which Jacqueline Aubenas expresses herself through the media, and my support to the courageous profession that Florence exercices. As I am a feminist, I can only join your fight to find your daughter. I wish you to continue with courage and I am stay ready for any demonstration of support.
Jointly yours,
Dani Frank (Belgique)

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. 10h02 – An open letter

To the political leaders in charge of our French democratic Republic, leaders we have elected so that freedom, equality and fraternity will rule, I claim the immediate release of our hostages.
I can’t be satisfied any more of this silence kept in the name of the discrete and diplomatic effectiveness. How long still will you require to us this blind confidence?
Florence, Hussein and Ingrid are the children of our Republic. Thus, they are YOUR children, OUR sisters and brothers. Do you act with the same force, the same will, the same LOVE
that you would do it was members of your family?
You have to prove it by making them release at once.
Twainie

Tuesday, Feb. 22., 2005. 21h44 – We must say

I want to send a message for already a long time. But it is not easy. The words are quickly solemn... And then I intended Dominique Simonnot who saya that Florence Aubenas can turn the situations to derision when it becomes unbearable, that she "makes jokes". Then I sought a joke, but I did not find one!
And then I said myself that it was necessary "to have the courage of its naivety" (I do not know any more who I quote but it is very well), that it was necessary to say, something, a little thing, because all is important: it should be said that it is necessary that Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi are released.
Nothing else to add.
Christou

Tuesday, Feb. 22., 23, 2005. 10h02 – Wandering, lightly dredged with melancholy

What to say moreover...
Jealousy and pride for your profession, I feel
yes...
Your profession, or rather your passion, perhaps your reason, has always haunted my lusts. But one day, obeying teenager, one says that I wasn’t of this world… you, the son of a worker... then I quietly return towards the intellectual darkness
But I don't lose hope, I raise the head... Who knows, one day I would perhaps belong to this world...
This world bringing, offering light to the heart and to the spirit... that no one says “I didn’t know”. No, you are there, Florence and Hussein, to warn us... carrying messages, bond between men, guarantors for the critical spirit... Yes, you incarnate a resistance! This word is strong for me, it sounds with pride in myself.
And such my heroes, at the same time I am jealous of you and I respect you!
Then see you soon and do not stop to sweep this planet of all its prejudices!
Zoro01

Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005. 15h46 - Florence and Hussein, we need you

What of hatred, what of discord on this earth which shouts with peace. You are our eyes and our ears in a world of injustice and war. With you information reaches us, you are essential for us. Nobody can claim to know what you are living at the moment, but alltogether we can, by the thought and by the hear, give you again hope of a nearest return. Be strong, courageous people, we are with you.
Christine

Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005. 15h04 - A gesture

You know, I'm just a teenager. But this story affected me greatly then I do what's on hand, to write a message here. I deeply hope that this story will soon finish... from the bottom of my heart, be strong.
Julie

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 16h27

A supporting line for Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi in the name of the freedom of the press and then in the name of liberty.
Cécile Vatelot and Olivier Diss.

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 15h08 - Support

A message of supporting and hope for both Florence and Hussein. Your bravery and faith in your action are an example for your profession and an example for all of us. We are impatiently waiting for you.
Ouioui.

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 14h04 - For Florence and Hussein

The "Neither pro neither submissive girls" Movement calls for the immediate release of Florence Aubenas and her guide Hussein Hannoun. The freedom of the press needs great journalists and colleagues as Florence and Hussein. They take risks to inform us and we are grateful for that. Nobody can assume the right to seize their liberty. We think of them and we stand by their families.
Fadéla Amara and all the militants of "Neither pro neither submissive girls"

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 13h42 - The wounded freedom

How couldn't we think to the Human element who is reduced to silence when his calling is to inform us about the state of the world? A warlike world, often violent, but never silencious. The life always changes loudly and the journalists are attached to describe these changes. What a sublime vocation, dear Florence, when you are a witness of the present time. The risks are tremendous, even so nothing and no one seems capable of stopping your mission. Even today, that heavy silence, speaks for you and in your favour. During all conflicts, and indeed in Iraq today, villainous groups give credibility to theirs actions with pseudo-religious speeches. It will give offense to you if we confuse Islam and these war profiteers. Others have to fight and help democracy to open its eyes towards the light of a responsible consciousness.
I am and we are thinking about you and we will never keep silence on your kidnapping and the kidnapping of your guide. Freedom is an inspiration that we must always support in order that it will not disappear. Since your kidnapping, freedom is wounded and cannot speaks. Nevertheless, we have to stay optimist; we have to keep fighting in order you will be rapidly released...
We are still thinking about you and your friend, hoping for a positive solution. Yes, freedom is wounded since you disappeared and we will do all that we can do to defend you. And thus, we will not reduce your ideal of life and your convictions. We will prove that the democracy worries firstly about the oppression of an individual, however he may be. We share sorrow with your collaborators, and we support them in this painful absence. Be back as soon, we wait for your return, like an obviousness. We make confidence despite everything, at the following day, which will announce your delivery. We are ready to accomodate you and we will be patient but, determined, against that stolen freedom. Sincere thoughts and friendship with your family and all those you like and who love you. I am one of those which respect you more than all in the world!
Bruno Leroy

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 13h03 - One did not have to go there!

Around me, I ear many people who say: "one did not have to go there!". I would wish to say to them, that the special correspondents know that they incur, and know the risks and the dangers.
After reflexion, I think that to go to Iraq, it is the first way of accounting for versed blood.
Not to go there, it is to accept that this blood is versed without being able, one day, to clean it.
Be courageous.
Didi39

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 12h16 - Anxieties

One month is gone...
Your presences, Mrs. Florence Aubenas and Mr. Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi, and one can add Mrs. Giuliana Sgrena, are terribly missing.
Your closest relatives let it know: they are anxious. At Libération, information changes: it is no more the same one without you.
Today, on February 14., St Valentine's Day, a concert is organized for your releases: they do not forget you.
Without freedom of expression which flows through free information, we do not advance. The predatory ones which holds you know it well, and believe me, they are very as much as us overwhelmed each morning with information of the world. (Even if that is not inevitably in Libération that they find it).
Be courageous Florence, be courageous Hussein, be courageous Giuliana and bravery for all the hostages of those stupid predators of an information which they also use.
Prinska

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 12h16 - We need you!

Florence, Hussein,
I greet your courage, your determination. Whereas you risk your lives at every moment, you hold us informed, on TVs or in the newspapers, near our chimneys, being nice and warm.
Thanks a lot you for all that you made and what you will do. See you very soon.
Mohammed

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 11h06 - Worried

I hope that you will read this message very soon. I do not know you, but I am one of those which are very anxious for you. No news for 40 days, it has been long. If this removal is villainous, why do we have to wait a so long time before requiring a ransom? All this is mysterious and worrying for us.
I see your photograph, Florence, and I find you very beautiful and your smile is very attracting. I am not certain that this message can be useful but one never knows. Be back quickly.
Jean-Luc

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 10h30 - Hard reality

Some articles grain me obviously because they are embroidered on an piece of truth. Others are justified, impressed truth, and that's due to some journalists who risk their life and their freedom to report us a real information, the field reality.
I do not read any more the articles in the same way when men and women impassion themselves for their profession. They do not strut about: they act!!!
Hoping of any heart that they will join their family well quickly.
Magiquad

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 10h07 - One more week...

... And I hope a new energy. An energy favourable with your return all in smiles. We will help you by a discrete support toget back into your old habits, to reinstate our rows where your absence is intolerable.
Symbols of our Freedom, witnesses of ambient cruelty, you have our respect and, from now, our affection.
Hold on. We are close to you.
Twainie

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. 09h44 - Happy saint's day

Today it's nor the Saint's Florence day neither the Saint's Hussein day, but today as avery day since January 5., we think of you.
Saint's Valentine day is the day for lovers. It's your love of the journalism which pushed you to go over there to testify, retranscribe and to inform us of this reality. Your engagement, your will and your professionalism should not be forgotten. It's the hope to see you again and to read you again which pushes us to support you and... especially... not to forget you.
Thank you so much and let me tell you that every day will be your Saint's day.
Gboutterin

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 23h56 - Freedom

... For the right to the freedom of expression : "RELEASE THEM"
Hold on, we all are with you! Courage for the families, the friends and colleagues.
Jacky

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 23h56 - Freedom

Freedom and human rights must be expressed each day with force and without slackening. While our fellow-citizens get impatient, the democracy gets out of breath. The political mens have to be so courageous as the journalists are.
I think of you and your families.
Peter Stone

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 22h58 - Thoughts

Fraternal thoughts for you.
Time is long. I want to believe that, in spite of the captivity, you're not so bad. I covered you with courage and hope. I also think of your families. Yes, definitely it's time that you go back home. You're missing too much. I call those who have some influence on your kidnappers: That they conclude successfully and as fast as possible your return to yours homes. Your place is waiting for you and we need you.
Twainie

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 21h18 - We need so much journalists as you are

Dear Florence,
Welfare officer, I receive all day long people who come "to deposit" their distress and their anguish: "I do not have any more gas, they have cut it", "I will be expelled", "I did not received the RMI this month, how will I survive?" and so on.... And very often I despair that the expression of this misery stops at the door of my office. I deplore that it remains ignored and invisible. How, under these conditions, to cause solidarity, and to make grow the desire of justice?
I read your articles. These people are allowed to get a word in your articles, some countries which they come from, and some are their difficulties or their hopes. We need so much journalists as you are, Florence, sensitive to those which have evil to say and that no one hears. Journalists who are also able to fight against the generally accepted idea, to peel the balance of power, and to show that all is not quite simple, that one is not responsible for his misery, but how each one of us is also capable of doing the best and even against any waiting!
Be back as soon, safe, and with Hussein.
Renée Chazel

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 20h08 - Hope

You are my eyes and my ears around the world and it is thanks to you that I can understand it. My thoughts go intensely towards Florence and Hussein as towards their nearest relatives.
El Kamsa

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 20h03 - Courage and thanks

I didn't know neither Florence, nor Hussein, I am rather a reader of The Humanité, but through you it is the freedom which became an hostage. Hold good! We will win, because freedom cannot be conceived muzzled. Thank you with all both and courage.
Davele

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 19h26 - The spring will blossom again

«Your portraits have been hanged up the walls of our cities» ...«and the dismal mornings are different».
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.
Today, it's a blue glance linked to a black one and the softness of their smiles.
The spring will blossom again when they will be released.
Ki Lin

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 19h25 - Essential journalists

When the development of the media allows the instantaneously diffusion of information, for myself the journalists seem to be essential. Indeed, they must be officially declared a national asset.
Nimbus-beagle

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 19h17 - Because it's sad...

Because I am 21 years old and I am still dreaming in that rotten world...
Because I love letters and those who use them...
Because my blood is doing your profession and that could have been it...
Because I am waiting for you...
Tiph52

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 17h53 - We need you

Let us be more and more to shout our will to defend the freedom of information which must be able to assert without risk so remarkable journalists, as Florence, one of them. Let us thank them, as well as the guides and interpreters who accompany them, to preserve this courage which enables them to take risks at the only end to respect their commitment to inform their readers. Let us refuse to see in these removals and seizure of hostages a fate against which each one of us could not anything. It is time that any citizen expresses his attachment to live in real time the movements of this world, because it is with a real information that we can act. We have to find the best means of protesting against these unbearable violations of the most fundamental rights of a journalist, who must be able to move without fear where it estimates, this in the respect of the deontology of the journalists. It concerns the safeguard of the society in which it will not become prohibited to think. Our words appear nothing really for saying, simply but very sincerely, COURAGE and THANK YOU to Florence, Hussein and Giuliana. We do not give up.
ClairePierre

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 17h34 - A more and more perilous job

I hope they are in good health and that they will be soon released, knowing their jobs suppose risks that no one cannot deny.
Sarah59

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 16h59 - I don't know you

I differently did not know you than by a name in bottom of an article.
Nevertheless, since you disappeared, this signature is from now on the first thing which I read, as well as the name written in very small characters vertically along the photographs...Whatever the subject is.
Of course, it delays me to see your signature again...
Guylaville

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 16h51 - It's incomprehensible...

Whatever the defended cause, to touch the integrity of those who have the courage to achieve the mission of informing is an abominable crime. Moreover, it is a monumental silly thing which cannot serve any strategy other than villainous. Florence and Hussein have to be released as soon as possible to reassure their families and friends.
They must also be able to turn over to Iraq -and everywhere else- where one is suffering, to help us (we are privileged) to keep in mind all the dramas who surround us, those dramas we would have tendency to forget.
JBS13

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 15h44 - We are of any heart with you

Since I am very small, I always dreamed to be a journalist. People as you are made me like this job.
That one retains you as an hostage will not change anything with the situation into Iraq: your kidnappers know it
Then I hope you will be released as soon as possible ...
Meryem (from Morocco)

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 15h34 - Get them free!

You who are the kidnappers of Florence and Hussein, return them to us: you do not serve your cause by attacking those who, by informing us, could help us to better understand you.
Never forget that violence always turned over against those which uses it (and read one more time your history books including the facts concerning your own country).
We rely on you.
Duaref

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 15h24 - One for all

Through Florence and Hussein, I give my support for all those, all around the world, who are imprisoned. What is their offence ? They only testify to the joys but especially to the sufferings which are, unfortunately, too important on this earth. I do not forget all the reporters who died when reporting...
For all journalistes, cheer for your courage, and above all do not change.
Freenautes

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 15h02 - How to explain this?

How to explain to these kidnappers that they attack their own liberty? May be, one day, Florence and Hussein will testify for them as they will be taken under the yoke of an injustice. These journalists are essential, formidably courageous and honest, and how much useful they are in this world of madness and indifference.
So return them to us as soon!!! So words will be free, and all men and women will be kept out of the human blindness.
Philippe Mignot.

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 14h23 - You will be back

Stay confident, you will be back! Perhaps not tomorrow, perhaps in a a too long time, but we will hear your release on the radios or on the TVs, and you will relate and explain us what you will have lived ...
While waiting that moment, I think of you, I think of your families and I tell them all my solidarity...
Laures

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 13h18 - Be back as soon

Whatever the kind of fight which one carries out, nothing justifies to take anyone as an hostage. I think of you, Florence and Hussein, I think of all the persons and families who knows these situations.
Be back as soon.
Stef

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 13h16 - Because we know nothing

When we learn what occurs throughout the world, the heart is tightened heart, the stomach is turned over, and the head is upset. But if you, journalists, did not make your job; if you, journalists, you do not go and see; if you, journalists, did not hold us with the current of all these facts, of all these news, how would we know? So, do we have to say "don't go there!"? No. The journalists know the risks. And thanks to them, we know all that we know. So thank you Florence, thank you Hussein, and thank you for all others journalists who, every day, risk their lifes to provide us information while we, very well and confortably settled, get sick with the news of the world. Without the journalists, world will be even worse as nobody would be there to revolt, to be moved and react facing all that occurs... So, Florence, Hussein, be back as soon, we are of any heart with you and behind you so that you do stay alone in this ordeal.
Sarah

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 12h11 - Liberty

I am here to know you, to name you LIBERTY (Paul Eluard))
I think very extremely of Hussein and Florence
And I hope we shall see them shortly.
Claudine Gaulier

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 12h04 - Against any kind of oppression

To Florence and Hussein: don't lose heart in this ordeal. We have the chance to be free and we are proud of you.
To their families, keep hope.
To the kidnappers: are you suffering or do you think you are the spokespersons for those who are suffering? How do you think you have the right to use such methods? You attack journalists. But they are the only ones who can describe your sufferings in order the public opinion must take action in your favour! Don't you think you have kidnapped the actors of your own release?
To Giuliana : I associate her with all these thoughts.
Jacques Pracca

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 09h47 - We think of you

We think of you and your families. Do not despair, hold good. Thank you for your courage, and for the information! Quickly return to us.
Beatriceh

Monday, Feb. 13, 2005. 09h13 - A small treasure of humanity

I didn't heard about Florence before she disappeared. Thank you for the kidnappers to have made known her to us, but now I believe that the whole world knows which extraordinary person she is, and you can release her. We all need people as she is, "a small treasury of humanity" as someone said on the TV, someone she had helped in one of her fights. And you, those who have kidnapped her (we cannot imagine that could be worse), and above all, you, you need her, but she has to be free.
Wherever you are, Florence and Hussein, be courageous.
Brigitte

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 20h31 - Against the lapse of memory

You write for us... I write for them...
Escudie

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 19h58 - Disappointed since they disappeared

I feel really sorry that these peoples of Iraq do not give some news of our friends who are honest, qualified, sure and without a priori. They have had misfortune to be at the bad place, at the bad time and to be journalists. I think well of them since January 15., I am with them and that is painful for me. We have to be reasonable! Because with this situation, we cannot believe any more in these people of this superb country. I have travelled in difficult countries, I am more than sad and I hope not to be disappointed by these people which aspire to other prospects. I am both French and European citizen and I have evil to understand their way of life; too much rivalries that I, that we do not understand, perhaps it depends on culture. I hope we shall be reasonable. I kiss them.
Bernard

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 18h24 - A common letter

With these common words, I send all my support to Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi. I have also thoughts to Serge July taking into consideration his responsibility.
With these common words, I send all my thoughts to those who love them.
With these common words, I wanted to give a piece of my time.
Sophie Cerutti

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 17h39 - Thank you

Thank you to go there, thank you not to ear those who said "not to go there", with the preoccupation of information and truth. Thank you never to listen to them, never to stop and never to give up. Thank you for your independance, which will succeed the world continues to move forward.
Quoquelicot

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 15h19 - Thank you

I just want to say that we think of you all over the world, and also here, in Morocco.
We are increasingly conscious of the danger of the profession of journalist and the courage that you have to hold us informed from what occurs somewhere in the world; but unfortunately everyone does not think as we do. So thanks to you when you risk your life while going in countries as dangerous as Iraq is.
I hope to see you safe.
Saidi Aymane (from Morocco)

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 14h12 - An ordinary fruit

Florence and Hussein,
I wondered a long time about the utility of such forum... When I read all these messages of tenderness, I am subjugated. Florence and Hussein, you carry out the fights that each everyone should carry out. I admire the clearness of your admirors, it makes quiver and one wants to give you love so much.
I am upset in this moment when I get information: the Pope, but especially this suddenly announced princely wedding... I do not want even any more to be outside, and the sky of Lille inserts me in a certain lethargy. I invent myself a disease to be able to reflect. It is not resignation but hope, the Hope that all the love which one tries to give to Florence bears its fruits. These fruits are ordinary, so much the love should all carry us.
I very extremely think of you two and your family.
Florence Dubois

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 13h58 - For the liberty to be informed

Thank your for your courage, be courageous, you will be back and you will continue to inform us so that the democracy is preserved.
Marie 06

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 13h41 - Courage

You are this memory which is lacking so much to us. You must have confidence.
Tenma

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 12h51 - Courage

Courage for all the team of Libération... for all the journalists who give information which help us to understand a part of the inextricable tumble of the world. Be courageous!
Odile51

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 11h22 - Support to Florence, Hussein and Giuliana

All our words, all our voices are asking for your release, could they finally be read and heard? It is in this hope that I add my message to the other messages. Thank you for your courage and to have gone where, according to our government, one did not have to go.
Gegetchris

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 11h01 - Support for freedom to be informed

I do not know Florence and Hussein. But I find shocking to be removed to have made his job.
I remember the passion that LIBE puts "to cover" the events: I was a former assembler offset from 1975 to 1977 and billsticker in 1972 for the launching of the newspaper (that does not renovate us!); at that time Libé was a hive. Then Libération became professionnal, talented journalists arrived. Florence is one of these.
If kidnappers could read me, they have to know that their fights will have more extent if the journalists are free to comment and develop their fights. I will stay beside Florence and Hussein, until they are released.
Hello to Alain Brillon, Sorj Chalandon and Serge July.
Dédé Moisan

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h39 - We are all one

A part of me is beside you. The most beautiful part. The part which is attentive to our world, its light and its shades. The part which is conscious of the capacity of the Love, Justice and Freedom.
Giuliana hanged up beside you in front of the French town halls is the message of an united Europe, the one I desire. And I add Ingrid Betancourt to this purpose. Today, «One for all, and all for one» is the device of the European people given by French to the enemies of Freedom. We owe you that.
Return quickly. We miss you.
Twainie

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h35 - Absurdity and unjustice

The missing of Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi is injust and absurdity. I join other signatories to ask for the liberation of Florence and Hussein.
By hoping of any heart that they return soon and that they can do their jobs with an entire liberty.
Frédéric Le Berre

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h35 - To read you again...

… but now with a face and a smile over the signature of your next articles
Emmanuelle

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h16 - Florence Aubenas, we need this kind of journalism...

As many others readers of Libération, I have been shocked by the missing of Florence Aubenas. I have been more shocked than the others because I knew Florence and I met her to discuss about her articles concerning Algeria when this country did the bloody covers of the newspapers. She went there several times and she brought back reports which went beyond the official versions, she gave to the reader of Libération a real image of the situation and of the opinion without making the play neither of the authorities (which did not appreciated her) nor the play of the Islamists. With the pen of Florence Aubenas, the facts lost of their irrationality and of their opacity and were explained by stakes that the actors in Algeria wanted to hide. That is professional journalism, as she showed in the article she sent from Baghdad before its removal. I hope that she will return alive from Iraq, at first because her family requires for it, her newspaper also, but especially her profession. As consumers of newspapers, we need Florence Aubenas to inform us of the difficult situations of the many areas tested all over the world. I hope she returns soon and on that day, I would buy five specimens of Libération which I would distribute gratuitously.
Lahouari Addi

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h10 - A thought for you

I hope we will heard from you soon...
Valeriego

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 10h00 - For you

As a message in a bottle thrown in the sea, I send you this message, that I hope will be read, read again, hummed, sung, altered, crumpled, chewed, coloured, dreamed, even deleted!... and then, I wish, will be lived by you, Florence and Hussein!
Sofaille

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 02h02 - Migration

I migrate with the poster which gathers you, you and Hussein, with the words to be placarded on the mountains. I will pin it in snow by the blue night like a desert. See you soon.
PS: I will undoubtedly carry some of your books
Jlr

Monday, Feb. 12, 2005. 01h10 - Loved freedom

The old man that I am is shocked of the cruelty of which you are victim.
With all my heart
Philippe

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 23h51 - Loved freedom

To Florence and Hussein
Because it is infamous to have taken your freedom
Because it is unbearable to deprive the world of your testimony and of the expression of the truth
Because it is inhuman to inflict this absence to your close relations
Because nothing can justify such acts, no cause, so large they are,
I want to shout my distress
I want to howl my thirst for freedom, and for humanity
I want to assert more fraternity in this upset world
I want to be able to affirm that each Man has his place, here and elsewhere.
I request God, Yahvé and Allah, if they exist, so that they protect your life.
Then, return quickly to prove to us that this glimmer of hope of a better world is still shining.
Take care of you.
Bruno Dhalluin

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 22h45 - Baghdad

Good evening,
The insupportable cruelty of silence... Why, as in the others taking of hostages, we do not have news from FLORENCE and HUSSEIN?
Would this be by safety, and in that case which play do we play? Do there exist any presumptions? If we can estimate that the support exists, and that's here that we can estimate the power of LIBE, how long will it be necessary for the pain is expressed? Which is the price to be paid to the kidnappers, and is there any kidnappers? And why don't they appear? In this country fulled with chaos, there are structured groups specialized in taking of hostages, who know the media relays and policies which make it possible to relay their demands of ransom or others. Why nothing today? What does one want to hide us?
Omni

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 22h05 - For the freedom

The website www.roussillon-infos.com (information in Catalonia Country, the Pyrénées and Roussillon), member of Reporters-Without-Borders , gives its support to Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi.

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 20h57 - Thought

It is a strange feeling when you so extremely feel the lack of an unknown person. I have to say to you that I am not a reader of Libé, and on the more I never read one of your articles. The testimonys of people who like you are SO NUMEROUS that I feel concerned by your fate. It is odd but I love you through all these people who make your apology and request for you day and night.
Indeed while passing downtown under one of your portraits, one feels miserable and useless against the wars and the so dramatic things, which arrive on earth. You occupy yourselves of one of the most honourable missions created by the mans: freedom. Many are those which fought to get it and you are continuing in this way. For that, thank you!! But your return will be a relief for all of us. The hope makes live and the whole France thrills with hope. Everyone thinks of you, and we continue to believe in your release. Be courageous and quickly return us!!!!!
See you soon,
Chacha, (affectionate thought of an unknown high-school girl)

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 20h44 - Terura atendado!

Even if we do not use each day the keyboard of our computer, to find, on these forums, a glimmer of hope of release of Florence, Hussein and Giuliana, we think of them, very extremely and daily, as we did at one time and formerly, with as much of enthusiasm and hope, for others which returned to us!!
We now only use their first names: they became our family, our close relations! Which human, worthy of the name, could not, as soon as possible, give freedom to them, and under which fallacious pretexts? Which responsible authorities would be estimated authorized not to help them by all the possible means?

Unbekannterweise grüßen wir dabei auch die Familien der Geiseln : wie können wir, armen Weltbürger, ihre beklemmende Angst lindern und ihre quälenden Schmerzen mildern ?

A.R.T.E. montris al siaj televidantoj dulingvajn alvokojn, kiujn mi unuafoje vidis je la tago, kiam estis anoncita la eksponado samtempa kaj samloka de la portretoj de niaj tri amikoj en Romo, kaj poste, alie (en Liono, Parizo, ...). Tiajn reagojn - tuteùropajn, ja ech tutmondajn - sentas mi despli varmecaj : mi esperas ke ili ankaù ebligas al la familianoj de la ostaghoj iomete mildigi la teruran atendadon ! Tutkore ...
Rovo

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 20h32 - Far from the eyes, close to the heart

I just understand today ... it takes time... I understand your attachment, Florence misses me...
I could not write as well as you do... She frightened me so much...
We have only one life, Florence made its battle of it...
Perhaps the kidnappers have a dirty mug but they will not be able to hold her for a long time. We have to stay mobilized...
I send all my sympathy to the family of Florence.
Clem

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 19h45 - A supporting letter for Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi

Cheers for you! You do a very difficult, but essential, profession so that the planet is informed in the most equitable and just way. Nevertheless, it is necessary that you can continue to practise it, and then your respective children and families receive your news and see you.
Philippe Champagnol

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 18h41 - A supporting message

Hello. My name is Cecile, I am a high-school girl in a class of 1ºS in Le Mans. As the majority of people (at least I hope so...) I feel concerned by the fate of the journalist Florence Aubenas. As I do not have any possibility to help her, I decided to send a message to support here. What this journalist lives shall not really be easy. I know someone who lived a small taking of hostage. I do not know if she has been shocked but she is nevertheless very affected. What is Florence Aubenas living is much more important.
I would like to know what these messages are useful for? And how these messages can help her?
And why the kidnapping of Florence Aubenas is not promoted through the medias as those of the two preceding journalists?
Thank you to answer me if you can. Be courageous and do not to stop your actions.
Cecile
PS: I only speak about Florence Aubenas but I also support her guide Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi.

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 18h23 - I'm thinking about you

As I am a woman, I am even more sensitive to the detention of Florence by individuals whose respect of the women is not the first concern. In my thoughts, I do not forget Hussein, nor all the others unhappy hostages. Nor these monstrous executions relayed by televisions and the Internet. Since the beginning of this missing, I was shocked by the relative indifference in which this removal moves, in comparison of media beating around the kidnappings of Chesnot and Malbruneau, and by the discretion of these two guys. But perhaps I am wrong.
Florence, Hussein, your families, I think very extremely of you.
Route bleue

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 18h17 - From the bottom of my heart

I am very touched by these disappearances of exceptional journalistss, I support with force that petition and all the actions of Libé. It is necessary to continue and persevere to find them and tell them how much we loved them!
Punchcoco

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h59 - Both of you

Florence,
I knew only your signature. But so much compliments of those who know you... Does each evening your beautiful face point out this sad truth: Who keep you hostages? Of which right? Why?
I think of your parents, with your friends. What an anguish!
Hussein and you, what do you do all day long? What do you think about? To whom do you think?
I'm waiting news from you. Please, do not make us any more wait.
Jean

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h55 - Hope

Since I am very small, I hear that "it will never happen again!", but tirelessly that starts again: taking of hostages, assassinations, tortures, failure with the most elementary rules of the humanity.
Some, at the risk of their life, dare to face this reality.
It is quite difficult for me to support all the various injustices, but nothing can justify your captivity, not evendespair...
I hope to see you soon.
Lobo71

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h55 - Listen carefully

At the same time so close and so far, so far in normal circumstances in Libé during the lunch's pause, I had had to read your name, Florence, among the other names. Since the events, the dark events which worry us, I had chosen to choose my sources of information, reserving my evenings far from the television, reserving my readings with the press, the press of truths reporters to get more information. The facts speak for themselves...
Since your departure, your portrait and that of your guide are hung on the Canebière. I very often think of you two, I think of you with a mixture of concern and anger. I hope that you will quickly return. You will have toon many things to say to us and we will listen to you very extremely. Be courageous.
Nostromo

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h24 - Support to Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi

Wishes for their next release
Margoohayon

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h24 – Just a thought

We follow this kidnapping from a distance, through the media... What to do????
Just one word to say that we think of those who work discreetly and who are under the spotlights only when their exercise becomes difficult.
All my thoughts to their families and their friends.
Vivien

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 16h53 – All my support

All my support to Florence Aubenas, Hussein Hanoun Al Saadi, Fred Neyrac, Guy-André Kieffer and all others. We think of you everyday, as we think of all your close relations. The mobilization is large around your misfortune. And that is the least we can do to thank you (the word is weak) for all the risks you take to bring us reliable information.
We greet your courage. We do not forget you and we know that you find the forces to resist and return very quickly near yours.
Aurélie and Gregory

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 17h24 - The future of our children

I wish a very fast release to Florence and Hussein so that they can find their family quickly. I wish to their kidnappers that they open their eyes and that they think of the future of their children. Nothing can justify all these deaths and all these hostages. Neither Saddam, neither Bush, nor nobody.
In a friendly way.
François (from Portugal)

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 16h31 – A little message…

The messages left by those who know Florence Aubenas are all showing at which point it is a person formidable and right. I hardly hope that the kidnappers will also see this quality of Florence and Hanoun Al-Saadi and that they will respect them for that.
Floggie

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 15h48 – Out of sight, near the heart

Dear Florence
I imagine each morning when Hussein translated into Arabic these messages which speak about love, tenderness, affection, and so on, the mug that yours kidnappers must draw. They will think that you must have in France a lot of lovers. Of course, they do not know
that you work for a "people" newspaper and that you are a star. But you have to take care with competition, the proof with this upsetting news, printed yesterday in Libé: "Prince Charles and Camilla will get married" Which emotion for the readers.... For the offspring, girl or boy, we don’t know.
I was close an heart attack. If only Camilla was a journalist and you a princess in Windsor, we could take it easy. If I am invited at the "party", I’ve promised myself to invite you!
Mrs and M. Aubenas, I think of you each day as I do with the family of our friend Hussein.
Bernard

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 15h13 – Support for Florence, Hussein and Giuliana

Guiliana, One more. One more and that’s too much... All my thoughts to these who dare to take risks to inform us. I have only one word: THANK YOU
Well fraternally.
Agnès

Monday, Feb. 11, 2005. 15h09 – Liberty to be informed

Your courage and your determination to go on the spot of war at the risk of your life are essential for us. They guarantee that we will get free information and protects us from the tyrants. We must stay vigilant in this world where the misinformation and the single thought are a temptation which even the great democracies have evil to resist. Thanks to persons as you are, the worst dictators know than they cannot act with impunity. You are our hope of a better world for our children.
Receive all my admiration. You represent the true journalism, the pure and ethical one that has a true reason for being. Return to us. All these messages of sympathy will put at evil your modesty. That’s fine. You really deserve our esteem.
Nicvid (from Spain)

Monday January 31, 2005 - "By taking action we send them oxygen" by Jean-Paul Kauffmann*

"What I can tell you is that it is events like this which saved my life. Nothing is too marginal. Everything is indispensable. Even doing something that might hardly seem to be worth it has inestimable value.
I can bear witness to the fact that even the most isolated cell is never completely sealed off from the world. Just sometimes, a current of air manages to seep through from the outside.
I remember that for more than two years I had no news of the outside world. My wife Joelle had recorded 50 or so messages via radio stations in the Middle East. Well, it was the 51st which got through to me.One day in December my jailers brought me a radio. Just for a few hours. I don't know why. And I was able to hear Joelle and my two sons. I think that there is no point in questioning the effectiveness of this or that type of action. In any case, just taking action is enough by itself.
Above all, never let yourselves be put off by the argument that media attention drives up a hostage's value and raises the stakes. It's a false debate. Do we need to remind ourselves that media coverage actually provides protection? This evening we are placing a shield between Florence and Hussein and their captors. By doing this we are sending them oxygen.
The Foreign Minister is right when he says 'everyone has their own role'. He is appealing for discretion. Yes, everyone has their own job to do. But when he says mobilization is useful, as I heard him say this morning on the radio, well, allow me to say that he is minimizing the role of this kind of campaign just a little. It isn't just useful - it is indispensable, it is essential. Our leaders need to be buttressed by public opinion to negotiate better.
I don't want to imply that in the absence of public pressure the people who govern us would do nothing. Perhaps they will intervene in the way the state normally does when faced with a problem: at its own pace. As for me, I stayed there for three years.
Don't be alarmed Florence and Hussein will return soon - but it is important to note that the American hostages in Lebanon, whose cause didn't significantly rally American opinion, were only freed after six years.
We have, as it were, wiped the slate clean. All that was 20 years go. I think that nowadays all the protagonists have a lot of experience. Public mobilization should spur the government to act. Because, if you will pardon me for closing with something obvious, it is the government that negotiates, not us!
Negotiation needs to take place in silence, in secret, behind the scenes. With us, it is just the opposite. Our role is to speak out. To campaign. To make our action visible. Thank you"

* Jean-Paul Kauffmann was kidnapped in Beirut on May 22, 1985, while working as a journalist at French newsmagazine L'Evenement du Jeudi. He was held as a hostage for more than three years.