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Supplies for eastern provinces leave Tripoli
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1. Wide top shot of convoy of trucks carrying supplies driving through Tripoli UPSOUND: horns
2. Close of supplies on truck
3. Libyan army tank at traffic lights
4. Various of trucks driving through Tripoli UPSOUND: horns
5. Wide of traffic, Supporters of Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi chanting in background
6. Gadhafi supporters chanting, standing around police vehicle
7. Man waving Gadhafi-era green Libyan flag
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A convoy of trucks loaded with food and medical supplies left the Libyan capital for Benghazi on Tuesday, as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime sought to show it still held authority in areas that have fallen under the control of its opponents.
A total of 18 trucks loaded with rice, wheat-flour, sugar and eggs left Tripoli for Benghazi, the country's second largest city 620 miles (1,000 kilometres) east of the capital.
Also in the convoy were two refrigerated cars carrying medical supplies.
The convoy was met with a small pro-Gadhafi demonstration as it made its way out of Tripoli.
God, Gadhafi, Libya and that's it, chanted the demonstrators.
Soldiers and army tanks could be seen guarding the roads as the trucks passed through the Qasr Bin Aachir neighbourhood.
Anti-government fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi said on Tuesday that they would keep up their fight to oust embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi, even as life appeared to be slowly returning to normal in other parts of the city.
Leaders of the anti-government movement in eastern part of Libya - currently believed to be under the control of rebel fighters and protesters - said they were trying to put together a force made up of army troops and volunteers with basic military training and that they already have more than 5,000 volunteers.
The plan, they explained, was to march on Tripoli through the desert, skirting big loyalist towns along the way like Sirte, and to glean information from Tripoli on the easiest route into the city.
The opposition is backed by numerous units of the military in the East that joined the uprising, and they hold several bases and Benghazi's airport.
Gadhafi is dug in in Tripoli and nearby cities, backed by his elite security forces and militiamen who are generally better armed than the military.
The Libyan leader has launched the most brutal crackdown of any Arab regime facing a wave of anti-government uprisings spreading quickly around the Middle East.
But international pressure to end the crackdown has escalated dramatically in the past few days.
The US moved naval and air forces closer to Libya on Monday and said all options were open, including patrols of the North African nation's skies to protect its citizens from their ruler.
France said it would fly aid to the opposition-controlled eastern half of the country.
The European Union imposed an arms embargo and other sanctions, following the lead of the US and the United Nations.
The EU was also considering the creation of a no-fly zone over Libya.
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LEBANON: HOSTAGES HELD IN PHILIPPINES: RELATIVE
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A Lebanese delegation including 50 journalists, the Lebanese Minister of Electricity and the mother of the Lebanese-French hostage Marie Moarbess flew to Libya on Tuesday morning.
It is expected that the nine Western hostages, who've been held for nearly four months in a remote Philippine island, will soon be released and flown to Tripoli.
There they would meet with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The release has been negotiated in a deal that Libya is bank rolling and heavily publicizing.
Libyan officials insisted on Tuesday that the money they are paying to free the hostages will go for development projects, not into the pockets of their Muslim rebel captors.
For years, Libya has mediated between Muslim guerrillas and the Philippine government and has helped build schools and mosques in the southern Philippines, home to the country's Muslim minority.
But it also has been accused of training Islamic rebels.
Philippine negotiators have not announced how much Libya is paying for the hostages' release, and have described it as a ransom.
The separatist guerrillas have demanded 1 million dollars for each Westerner: two South Africans, three French citizens - including Moarbess, with a Lebanese background - two Germans and two Finns.
They were part of a group of 21 people kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf rebels on April 23 from Malaysia's Sipadan diving resort.
Their freedom would leave three Malaysians and two Filipinos still in rebel captivity from the Sipadan group.
Tharwat Moarbess, mother of Moarbess, said on Tuesday she was kept awake at night from the excitement of her daughter's possible release.
Mrs. Moarbess said Marie had spoken three times by telephone with her father and sent them several letters to inform them about her condition during captivity.
Moarbess said her daughter told them she was in a good condition, although she was living in a mosquito-infested place with no clean water.
Marie, who will be 33 in January, has faith she will be released, her mother said.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic)
A Libyan airplane has landed in the Island where the hostages are held and that means that the negotiations have reached the final stage and that the Libyan mediations have given its fruits and the hostages will be released soon among them the Lebanese Marie Moarbess.
SUPERCAPTION: Suleiman Trabulsi, Minister of Electricity
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I am thrilled because today is the Virgin Marie's day and she brought me back my Marie. I know nothing else, I wasn't been able to call anybody there.
SUPERCAPTION: Tharwat Moarbess, mother of Lebanese-French hostage Marie Moarbess
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What is Libya? Explain Libya, Define Libya, Meaning of Libya
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Description: Libya , is a sovereign state in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres , Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya. Libya has been inhabited by Berbers since the late Bronze Age. The Phoenicians established trading posts in western Libya, and ancient Greek colonists established city-states in eastern Libya. Libya was variously ruled by Carthaginians, Persians, Egyptians and Greeks before becoming a part of the Roman Empire. Libya was an early centre of Christianity. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area of Libya was mostly occupied by the Vandals until the 7th century, when invasions brought Islam to the region. In the 16th century, the Spanish Empire and the Knights of St John occupied Tripoli, until Ottoman rule began in 1551. Libya was involved in the Barbary Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ottoman rule continued until the Italian occupation of Libya resulted in the temporary Italian Libya colony from 1911 to 1943. During the Second World War, Libya was an important area of warfare in the North African Campaign. The Italian population then went into decline. Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. The coup leader Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country from 1969 and the Libyan Cultural Revolution in 1973 until he was overthrown and killed in the War of 2011. In the second Libyan Civil War, ongoing since 2014, two authorities initially claimed to govern Libya: the Council of Deputies in Tobruk and the 2014 General National Congress in Tripoli, which considered itself the continuation of the General National Congress, elected in 2012. After UN-led peace talks between the Tobruk and Tripoli governments, a unified interim UN-backed Government of National Accord was established in 2015, and the GNC disbanded to support it. Parts of Libya remain outside either government's control, with various Islamist, rebel and tribal militias administering some areas. As of July 2017, talks are still ongoing between the GNA and the Tobruk-based authorities to end the strife and unify the divided establishments of the state, including the Libyan National Army and the Central Bank of Libya.Libya is a member of the United Nations , the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country's official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
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LIBYA: SIX FORMER HOSTAGES ARRIVE
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A plane carrying six former hostages travelled to Libya on Monday for an extraordinary welcome by Moammar Gadhafi.
The Libyan strongman earned unprecedented international thanks for persuading Filipino rebels to release the group.
A plane carrying the former hostages left Cebu, Philippines on Monday headed for Tripoli.
It landed in the United Arab Emirates for refuelling in the early afternoon and was to resume its trip later in the day.
A joyful mother of one of the hostages released by rebels in the Philippines flew to Libya on Monday to join Colonel Moammar Gadhafi in welcoming the six Westerners.
Tharwat Moarbes, whose Lebanese-French daughter Marie was among those freed, thanked the Tripoli government for their involvement in securing the release of the hostages.
The Abu Sayyaf group released five Western hostages on Sunday, and another one on Monday.
Most of them were in captivity for four months after being captured on April 23 in the Malaysian diving resort of Sipadan.
There are still six foreigners, including the son of a newly-released German man and the boyfriend of a released French woman, in the hands of the rebels, as well as 12 Filipino hostages.
Officials from Germany, France and South Africa are also expected to attend the welcoming ceremony in Libya.
Libya, often accused of backing guerrillas, plotting terror attacks and meddling in affairs far from home, says it acted out of humanitarian concern.
But the move also won Gadhafi international publicity at a time when his country is working to end years of isolation.
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I am very happy that my daughter was released and very thankful to President Gadhafi and I hope they will all be released soon
SUPER CAPTION: Tharwat Moarbes, mother of hostage
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I am very happy that my father was released and I am lucky. Now I am waiting for him
SUPER CAPTION: Dirk Wallert, son of Werner Wallert, released hostage and brother of remaining hostage, Marc
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LIBYA: PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES RELEASE BID
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Muslim rebels in the Phillipines on Wednesday released a hostage held for nearly four months in a remote jungle hide-out.
Negotiators hope that at least a dozen other hostages could be freed within a day.
The Abu Sayyaf rebels, who abducted 21 people from Malaysia's Sipadan diving resort on April 23, freed Filipino Lucrecia Dablo, an employee at the resort.
The rebels have been holding the hostages in primitive mountain hide-outs on Jolo, an impoverished island at the southern tip of the Philippines.
The former Libyan ambassador to the Philippines, Abdul Rajab Azzarouq appeared at a news conference in Zamboanga with the freed hostage on Wednesday.
Negotiators say Libya has played a high-profile role in the discussions and is footing the bill for the release of the Western hostages.
Libya's role in the affair is a source of national pride on the streets of Tripoli.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
This is a duty for the Libyan Government because these people are human beings. Every country has to help in this issue, whether the country concerned is Arab or Muslim, we have to help in this matter.
SUPER CAPTION: Falhed Moati, Merchant
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
The people, we have encouraged the government to help in this issue, like the release of the hostages, and especially in an Islamic country. It's a great initiative from our leader Gadhafi and his people.
SUPER CAPTION: Sami Safadi, Merchant
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
We thank our leader Gadhafi for his initiative to handle this issue of the hostages in the Philippines. We are a peace loving country, and we want peace in the whole world.
SUPER CAPTION: Khaled Malla, Shop Owner
Last month, the rebels freed six Malaysians and one German.
They are now holding 28 hostages - six French, three Malaysians, two Germans, two Finns, two South Africans and 13 Filipinos - including the three journalists and a dozen Christian evangelists who visited the rebels' camp to pray for the hostages.
A South African diplomat waiting in Tripoli, said the news of Dablo's release had raised his hopes that the western hostages would soon be freed.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We have a lot of positive signs coming out of the Phillipines and we hope that these positive signals might help us to resolve this problem
SUPER CAPTION: Jerry Matsila, Deputy Director General for South African Foreign Affairs
The former Libyan ambassador to the Phillipines, Abdul Rajab Azzarouq flew with the Chief Negotiator Robert Aventajado to Jolo island on Wednesday to hammer out final details for the release of the Western hostages.
Earlier, there had been hopes that nine Western hostages would be freed on Wednesday in a deal bankrolled by Libya.
However, officials said minor hitches had forced a delay until at least Thursday.
A chartered plane from Libya was waiting in Manila to pick up the Western hostages and take them to Tripoli to meet with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but negotiators say the hostages are not obligated to travel on it.
The Libyan negotiator Azzarouq denied reports that as much as 25 (m) million U-S dollars, in cash was going to the Abu Sayyaf rebels.
Instead, Azzarouq insisted that his country would fund development projects in the southern Philippines.
For years, Libya has mediated between Muslim guerrillas and the Philippine government and helped build schools and mosques in the impoverished south, home to the country's Muslim minority.
Libya also has been accused of training rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, another separatist group that has been fighting for an Islamic state in the southern Philippines.
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Lecture 16: Denouement of Humanitarian Intervention
How and why did NATO's intervention in Libya happen? Prof. Ian Shapiro discusses the origins of this and its implications for the prospects for Humanitarian Intervention, the stability and future shape Middle East and the ability of the US to be a force for good internationally.
Libya Commentary 6: French Mercenaries
While having coffee at the Tibesti Hotel, a security officer working for Al Jazeera warned me with a bit of concern that a French national was just killed by one of the Katibas.
Soon after, a few of us went with a man who works with NTC intelligence to find out what had transpired. The details were very murky, but it appeared that four or five French private security personnel were detained upon suspicion of being Gaddafi agents. One of them tried to flee and was accidentally shot and killed.
A few days later, a French reporter/documentarian arrived in Benghazi to investigate the incident. My close friend worked with him for a week to solve the case, but only more questions were raised.
What is known is that the French security personnel arrived under suspicious circumstances; the leader had been in Tripoli a few times within the last couple of years. Further, their flat was filled with diving equipment, and had several maps of Benghazi on the walls, despite them having arrived only hours earlier. The case was immediately swept under the rug by the NTC and the French government.
Does this mean that they were agents of Gaddafi? At the times, given the information, it seemed quite clear. However, as time passed, it became less and less clear. The security company denies all wrong doing. Perhaps it is worth returning to Benghazi, and opening up this now cold case.
LIBYA: HOSTAGES FREED IN PHILIPPINES: ARRIVAL WRAP
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A plane carrying four former hostages freed by Muslim rebels in southern Philippines arrived in Tripoli on Monday.
Libya reportedly paid 1 (m) million dollars each to secure freedom for the German, Frenchman and two Finns who flew out of the Philippines on Monday, after being held for months by a small Muslim rebel group.
The hostages talked to the press about their ordeal.
Libya is believed to have paid 1 (m) million dollars each to secure freedom for the German, Frenchman and two Finns who flew out of the Philippines on Monday after being held for months by a small Muslim rebel group.
The hostages were quick to pay tribute to Libya for securing their freedom.
The freed hostages emerged from the aircraft holding bouquets of flowers.
They later went to the airport's VIP lounge, where they posed for the cameras, raising glasses filled with juice to celebrate their freedom.
A day after the four hostages were released on Saturday, three men, all Malaysians, were abducted from near where Abu Sayyaf rebels kidnapped 21 people, including the four Europeans, on April 23.
One Filipino resort worker remains in captivity from the group captured in April.
Two French television journalists, seized when they visited the rebels' camp, are still being held by the Abu Sayyaf.
The guerrillas are also holding 12 Filipino Christian evangelists.
Another faction is holding American Jeffrey Schilling.
Libyan officials have denied ransom was paid, saying they instead secured the rebels' confidence by funding development projects in the impoverished, heavily Muslim southern Philippines.
But negotiators in the Philippines said Libya paid a one (m) million dollar ransom for each of the four released Saturday and another one (m) million dollars each for six released late last month.
The released hostages have reported sudden signs of wealth in the rebel camp new clothes, gold jewellery.
Negotiations for the remaining hostages have been suspended because of fighting among the Abu Sayyaf factions, reportedly over the division of the ransom money.
Muslim Libya has longstanding ties with Muslim rebels in the mostly Catholic Philippines.
In addition to negotiating in previous kidnappings, it has helped build schools and mosques in the south
and has been accused of training rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a large Muslim rebel group.
Despite the ransom concerns, Libya was reaping diplomatic rewards for its efforts.
Libya, long accused of sponsoring terrorism and meddling in the affairs of other countries, is working to end years of international isolation.
International sanctions were suspended last year when Libya handed over for trial in the West two of its government officials accused in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja headed to the north African nation to participate in a welcome ceremony for the hostages scheduled Tuesday.
France and Germany were sending lowerranking officials from their foreign ministries, though diplomats in Tripoli said German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, in New York Monday for U.N. meetings, would try to reach Tripoli in time for Tuesday's ceremony.
It was not yet clear Monday whether Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi would attend Tuesday's celebrations.
A similar ceremony held for the six former hostages released last month was an antiAmerican affair, held at the ruins of the house where Gadhafi's adopted daughter was killed in a 1986 US bombing.
Beside Vahanen, the hostages freed on Saturday were fellow Finn Seppo Franti; German Marc Wallert, whose parents were earlier released; and Stephane Loisy of France.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q. How do you feel?
SUPER CAPTION: Risto Mirco Vahanen, Finnish Hostage
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A Libyan guy who has been shut by a fishing equipment in Libya,well it looks sad, I have to say, but I just wanted to show how cruel it could be when fighting.
Luckily the guy survived the attack
Desperate journey to Europe, Garaboli Libya
UN special advisor to Iraq calls for power to be handed over to Iraqis
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2. Salame enters
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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ghassan Salame, UN Special Adviser to Iraq
First, what is needed is really to invert the process when it comes to security as well, by making the Iraqis, by putting the Iraqis in the front row and any force, be it occupation, be it multi-national, be it blue berets (UN), you name it, any force force in a back-up position, not in the forefront. So my first condition for success, in my view, is an inversion of the fact.
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6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ghassan Salame, Adviser to the late UN envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello
Those who favoured the war as well as those who opposed it, should come to the conclusion that Iraq, as it is today, is a threat to regional stability and international security and a threat to its own citizens as well. Therefore, unanimity a real one, underlined 'real one', is needed now to send a clear message to the Iraqis that whatever forces you send into Iraq, coalition, occupation, multi-national, blue berets (UN), whatever forces are really representative of a unified, or more exactly, a reunified international community.
7. Cutaway pan
8. SOUNDBITE: (French) Ghassan Salame, Adviser to the late UN envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello
I think the (UN) Secretary General is right to say that you all are, members of the UN security Council, asking for a bigger role of the United Nations. That it is bigger or smaller does not matter, what is important is that it must be a precise role. And in the (resolution) 1483, this role is vague. In the new draft resolution today on the table of the Security Council, it is not precise either.
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10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Ghassan Salame, Adviser to the late UN envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello
I think that today we must have the courage to reverse the tendency, to put -on the contrary- the Iraqis on the front line and transform the role of the other parts, no matter if it's the coalition, or the United Nations, or some other international organisations, even the NGOs (non-governmental organisations), in a supportive role in an effort to re-establish peace and reconstruction which would be mainly the responsibility of the Iraqis themselves.
11.Pan across media to Salame
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The Iraqis need to be at the forefront of running their own country in order to re-establish peace and security according to a UN special advisor to Iraq, Ghassan Salame.
Calling for an inversion of power in Iraq, Salame said any troops whether they were occupation forces or UN forces has to play a supportive, secondary role to the Iraqis.
Salame also urged the UN Security Council to put the divisions over the war in Iraq behind them and take a united position on how to deal with postwar Iraq.
Salame said he hoped that the US draft resolution on Iraq being discussed by Security Council members could be worked on to reflect a real united front among members.
The US-drafted resolution would create a multinational force in Iraq under a unified U.N. command with an American commander.
But critics of the draft resolution, including France and Germany, say it does not go far enough in transferring political sovereignty to the Iraqi people and does not give the United Nations a strong enough role.
Salame said that it was more important to re-establish Iraqi political sovereignty than to broaden the international scope of the occupation forces.
He also called for a clarification of what the United Nations is in Iraq to accomplish politically adding that the US draft resolution also falls short on this point.
Salame was in the UN building at the time of the attack but he escaped unhurt.
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LIBYA: FORMER HOSTAGES HELD IN PHILIPPINES ARRIVE
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Six former hostages from France, Germany and South Africa have arrived safely in Tripoli, the ordeal of the past months captivity in the Philippines behind them.
A welcome ceremony for the former hostages was held at the site where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's adopted daughter was killed in a 1986 U-S bombing of Tripoli and the port city of Benghazi that killed at least three dozen people.
The hostages will later meet the colourful and controversial Gadhafi, who arranged their release.
The building where the ceremony took place, with high level delegates from Germany, South Africa and France, was damaged in strikes - retaliation for Libya's alleged involvement in a West Berlin bombing that killed three people at a disco frequented by U-S servicemen.
Gadhafi often receives foreign visitors at the site, a ruined house, taking the opportunity to criticise the United States.
But the Libyan leader did not attend the ceremony, during which Libyan officials took turns at giving speeches praising him and the work of the Gadhafi International Association for Charitable Organizations, an outfit known to be close to the government and which headed Libya's mediation efforts in the hostages crisis.
Two former hostages - South African Callie Strydom and German Werner Wallert - wore white T-shirts with a picture of the Libyan leader on the back.
The front had the name of the association in English and Arabic in green.
Gadhafi, in power for more than three decades, earned unprecedented international thanks for persuading Filipino rebels known as Abu Sayyaf to release the six and he is working on winning the freedom of 18 others - six foreigners and 12 Filipinos - still held captive by the Muslim rebels.
Negotiators in the Philippines say Gadhafi paid one (m) million U-S dollars per captive, but Libya denies that, insisting it gained the releases by promising development projects in the Philippines.
Libya, often accused of backing guerrillas, plotting terror attacks and meddling in affairs far from home, says it acted out of humanitarian concern.
But the move also won Gadhafi international publicity at a time when his North African nation is working to end years of isolation.
The French minister for cooperation, Charles Josselin, went to Libya to receive the French citizens among the former hostages and told France Inter radio that relations are set to improve.
France accuses Libyan agents in the 1989 bombing of a French passenger jet that killed 170 people.
Libya has long-standing ties with Muslim rebels in the mostly Catholic Philippines and has helped negotiate in previous kidnappings.
It has helped build schools and mosques in the impoverished south, but has also been accused of training rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the larger Muslim rebel group.
The hostages freed on Sunday included French women Marie Moarbes - who is of Lebanese descent - Sonia Wendling and Maryse Burgot; South Africans Monique and Callie Strydom; and German Werner Wallert.
Burgot was among three French journalists who came to the rebel camp to interview the hostages last month, while the other freed hostages were among 21 people kidnapped from the Malaysian diving resort of Sipadan on April 23rd.
The two other French journalists remain held along with 12 Filipino Christian evangelists who had come to pray for the captives.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Christophe Zoepel, Deputy German Foreign Minister
SOUNDBITE: (French)
I must thank the Libyan authorities and above all the envoy and the organisation presided over by his son for their part in the freeing of the hostages who we welcome today.
SUPER CAPTION: Charles Josselin, French minister for cooperation
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