"I needed to be the one who would run across the open ground and tell them we needed a Humvee. And I knew that my charismatic friends toe and leha. Lea. Elia would be there to treat me," he says. "The tricky part would be just making her cross the open ground without getting shot again." The heroic driver of the Humvee rushing out into the battle to rescue the team under fire was French journalist Bernard Geneer.