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A Happy Ending
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Florence Aubenas is accustomed to life in danger zones. As a foreign correspondent for the French daily Libération, she has covered wars in Afghanistan, Algeria and Kosovo, and genocide in Rwanda. But she'd never become the story until Aubenas, 44, was taken hostage along with her Iraqi translator, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi, by Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Sent to Baghdad last December to cover the Iraqi elections, she was captured in January while reporting near Baghdad University in the al-Jadriya district of the city. Blindfolded and chained by her wrists and ankles in a 2 m by 4 m pitch-black room,...