"What Can They Have Against France?"

…wondered Georges Malbrunot, concerning the Iraqi kidnappers, during his and Christian Chesnot's captivity. What indeed, since the two were "good guys", i.e., they were in Iraq

to show the realities of the resistance [and] we confirmed that we are not at all following a pro-American line.

What indeed, can the kidnappers have against France, since

we Frenchmen are virginal. We have no troops, we have no businessmen, we have nothing.

In case the message of relativization still wasn't clear enough, Malbrunot added:

we feel that there exists a game of mirrors between Bush and the jihadists, who want a clash of civilizations…