French Imams gather in support of missing journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot during a meeting of the French Council of the Muslim Faith at the Paris mosque, August 31, 2004. Malbrunot and Chesnot disappeared August 20 on their way from Baghdad to Najaf in Iraq. Both journalists were taken hostage by Isalmic militants demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic head scarf in French schools.