France is receiving information about the two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on a regular basis and, despite four months' captivity, they are in good health, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Monday. "We get information regularly. According to this information, we have the conviction that they are alive and that they are in good health," Barnier said on RTL radio. Christian Chesnot, a 37-year-old journalist for RTL, or Radio France Internationale, and Georges Malbrunot, 41, of the daily Le Figaro, disappeared Aug. 20 along with their Syrian driver on the road to the Iraqi city of Najaf.
