Hamas official says BBC reporter to be freed Sunday
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A Hamas official said on Sunday BBC reporter Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza three months ago, would be released within hours, but as the clock ticked by another senior member of the Islamist group counseled caution.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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UK MPs urge engagement with Hamas, after it helped free BBC correspondent Alan Johnston in Gaza.
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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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Journalist held hostage in Gaza for almost four months, has been released, BBC confirms.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage for nearly four months in the Gaza Strip, flew home to Britain on Saturday, three days after being freed, a source at Israel's main international airport said.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed early Wednesday in Gaza City, the Islamist movement Hamas said.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a new Internet video Monday wearing what he said was an explosive vest and warning that he will be killed if there is an attempt to secure his release by force.
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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.
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A TV reporter abducted in Gaza in March was released early Wednesday. BBC correspondent Alan Johnston told CNN: "I am so glad to be free." He described his ordeal as "a nightmare."
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston has appeared in a video wearing a suicide bomb belt, according to dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya who demanded an end to his 104-day captivity on Sunday.
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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 in the early hours of Wednesday, Reuters journalists who saw him said.
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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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Hamas has pledged in the wake of its bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip to work free BBC reporter Alan Johnston, snatched by gunmen more than three months ago in the volatile territory.
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A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank was released after two years of detention in an Israeli jail, Palestinian witnesses said Thursday.
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Hamas security forces detain members of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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The kidnappers of British reporter Alan Johnston fear they will be harmed if they release him now that Hamas is in control of Gaza, despite assurances otherwise, a senior Hamas official said Saturday.