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BBC Gaza reporter Johnston freed
Reuters ^ | July 3, 2007 | Nidal al-Mughrabi

Posted on 07/03/2007 8:52:39 PM PDT by Islander7

GAZA (Reuters) - Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early on Wednesday after a late-night deal with the al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.

"It is just the most fantastic thing to be free," he told the BBC live by telephone from the home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. "(But it had been) at times quite terrifying."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alanjohnston; hostages; islam; journalist; terrorist; wot
Good news. I wonder how much ransom BBC paid?
1 posted on 07/03/2007 8:52:42 PM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Oops! This is an excerpt, read more at the link.


2 posted on 07/03/2007 8:53:40 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Islander7

Did he convert or pay the jizya?


3 posted on 07/03/2007 8:53:48 PM PDT by rmlew (Build a wall, attrit the illegals, end the anchor babies, Americanize Immigrants)
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To: Islander7

Nothing but ill-gotten Muslim “good-will” to the British, three days after trying to kill hundreds with those car bombs.


4 posted on 07/03/2007 8:54:49 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Islander7
BBC loves the muzzie terrorists, this guy was probably treated like gold.
5 posted on 07/03/2007 8:55:09 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Islander7

Accomplice - not hostage.

He is a pro-terrorist BBC presstitute/urinalist.


6 posted on 07/03/2007 8:55:55 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: Islander7

They probably had a gay romp on the American flag the whole time, and finished with a nice bit of tea. Screw the BBC.


7 posted on 07/03/2007 8:58:44 PM PDT by Douggles
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Great. He has probably joined the british journalist’s anti-israel boycott by now...


8 posted on 07/04/2007 5:27:59 AM PDT by drzz
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To: Islander7

Of course BBC paid a heavy ransom to get the reporter freed. The terrorists will never learn. That is one reason why they are 2000 years behind the times.

The only outlet they have to get their message of Jihad out is by the western news agencies.


9 posted on 07/04/2007 7:04:29 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: kinoxi

“BBC loves the muzzie terrorists, this guy was probably treated like gold.”

They strapped bombs to his body.


10 posted on 07/04/2007 7:26:50 AM PDT by theshire
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To: theshire

He is safe. If they wanted to harm him they would have. I’m glad he was released unharmed, but I can’t say it was an unexpected result.


11 posted on 07/04/2007 2:19:08 PM PDT by kinoxi
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