Kidnapped BBC man to be released &#39;soon:&#39; Hamas
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Gaza more than three months ago, should be released &quot;soon,&quot; a spokesman for Hamas said on Sunday.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday said it has identified the kidnappers of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza by four masked gunmen, and hopes to free him soon
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Intensive negotiations are underway toward freeing British Broadcasting Corp. journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped three months ago in Gaza, a senior Hamas official said Tuesday.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip, was freed on Wednesday after a deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March.
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A Palestinian government spokesman says he is hopeful BBC reporter Alan Johnston can be freed soon.
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The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers' masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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television and expect him to be freed soon, an Israeli Arab legislator close to the Palestinian leadership has said. &quot;They have succeeded in locating the kidnappers and have asked them to release him immediately.
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A Palestinian militant group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston said on Sunday there was no deal to free the Briton abducted in Gaza three months ago and said he would only be released if its demands were met.
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UK hostage Kenneth Bigley, who&#39;s been held in Iraq since Sept. 16, has been handed over to a new group who may want a ransom in return for his freedom, Bigley&#39;s brother Paul said in an interview on Sky News.
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British officials are &quot;very worried&quot; about kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston after the radical Islamist movement Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, a Foreign Office diplomat said Friday.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas officials in Gaza yesterday arrested a spokesman for the shadowy Army of Islam, the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBC's Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston, on March 12.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, a Palestinian source close to negotiations for his release said.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested the turning point that led to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza for almost four months, has been released, BBC confirms.
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Palestinian movement Hamas threatens to use force to free BBC reporter Alan Johnston by the end of Monday.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist captured in the Gaza Strip over two months ago, is alive and well and could be freed &quot;very, very soon,&quot; a Palestinian government spokesman said late Saturday.