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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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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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniya says a new video shows BBC reporter Alan Johnston wearing an explosives belt.
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A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Monday by unknown assailants, Palestinian security officials said.
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The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier
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As both BBC reporter Alan Johnston and Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit speak out, Hamas must show that it is powerful and responsible enough to win their release
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed on Wednesday after 16 weeks held hostage by Palestinian extremists in Gaza, looking pale and drawn but delighted that his &quot;terrifying&quot; ordeal was over.
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The captors of a British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent kidnapped in Gaza have promised to release him within 24 hours, a person involved in the negotiations said Friday.
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Alan Johnston, who had been held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials.
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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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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday that the kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have made a new video of the abducted journalist wearing what appeared to be explosives around his waist.
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GAZA -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early today after a late-night deal with the Al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.
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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 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.
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Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip seized on Monday a leading member of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam, the group which says it is holding a BBC correspondent hostage.
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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.