2 french journalists have been kidnapped.

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Sunday August 29, 2004 01:02 by oh well would have thought.

and according to Al Jazeera their captors will behead them

in protest against the ban ostentatious erligious symbols in national schools of the French Republic.
A controversial law which was passed by majority votes amongst by deputies of both left and right wing parties in the Assembly earlier this year.

Accordingly the French dept of the exterior and interior have today held emergency meetings with the representative councils of muslim groups of faith in France to discuss ways of bringing this situation to a peaceful and happy conclusing in both France "internally" and ahem "externally".

Meanwhile, France has expressed its satisfaction at the end of the siege of Najaf and the timely intervention of the ayatolah sinbad of british basra. ( I lost the style there at the end).

this is serious.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/dh/0,14-0@14-0@2-3208,39-23512142,0.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-377070,0.html