BBC Gaza reporter Johnston freed: sources
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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, Palestinian sources close to negotiations for his release said.
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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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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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Hamas security forces detain members of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza Strip since March, has been released, BBC confirms.
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Kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston has been released after nearly four months in captivity, Hamas said Wednesday. Looking pale and frail, the BBC correspondent told The Associated Press he was "OK."
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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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A Palestinian government spokesman says he is hopeful BBC reporter Alan Johnston can be freed soon.
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BBC reporter Alan Johnston was reunited with his family Saturday after four months as a hostage in the Gaza Strip and said one of the hardest parts about his ordeal was imagining his parents' anguish.
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The Army of Islam released on Friday a video showing the first pictures of BBC journalist Alan Johnston since he was kidnapped in Gaza City in March and in which he says he is well.
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Hamas security forces detain a spokesman of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a BBC reporter from his car in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, freed earlier this week in Gaza after 114 days as hostage of a radical Palestinian group, left Israel for London on Saturday, witnesses 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 that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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Award-winning BBC journalist Alan Johnston marks 100 days in the captivity of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as colleagues hold vigils for his release around the world.
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Kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston said his captors had treated him well in an Internet video issued by them on Friday.