http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/06/MNGTU94EE21.DTL&type=printable
absolute fiasco is more like it, but this is much worse then Villepin Brazil fiasco
Paris -- A high-stakes scheme to free two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq threatens to embroil President Jacques Chirac in a political scandal over whether his government assisted private intermediaries in negotiating with terrorists for the hostages' release.
absolute fiasco is more like it, but this is much worse then Villepin Brazil fiasco