led) multinational forces". But that did not figure in the thinking of her captors. "They didn't take her because of what she was writing, they took her because she was a Westerner." Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni was abducted in August by an organisation calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq. He was killed after Rome refused to give in to the group's demand that it withdraw its nearly 3,000 troops from Iraq. A French journalist, Florence Aubenas, was snatched from her vehicle in Baghdad in January and is still being held. Two other French reporters were freed in December after four months in captivity. "This is in everyone's mind and must make us consider the hypothesis that this (kidnapping) will not have a very brief duration," Fini said. --SP 0051 Local Time 2151 GMT
