Freed BBC reporter recounts long ordeal
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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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BBC journalist Alan Johnston told Thursday of his fear of having his throat cut in a Jihadi-style video execution, in a revealing account of his nearly four months held by an extremist group in Gaza.
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The BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston says it is "unimaginably good" to be free after 114 days in captivity.
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Mordechai Vanunu, who was freed in April after 18 years in an Israeli prison for revealing the country's nuclear program, told the BBC in a television interview from Israel that he was desperate to start a new life elsewhere.
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An Australian television journalist seized by rebels in Baghdad, interrogated for more than twenty hours but released unharmed is believed to be on his way home.
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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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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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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 Leeds man released from a Pakistani jail after 18 years on death row talks about his experiences.
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Iraq News, KABUL, A British freelance cameraman said yesterday he was detained by Afghan authorities for his role in the release of three UN hostages and came under pressure to sign a statement saying he was part of the kidnap gang.
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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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GAZA STRIP -- A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip yesterday by unknown assailants, Palestinian security officials said.
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One of two French journalists freed after a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq on Thursday spoke of having been immersed in Planet (Osama) bin Laden as the pair began giving media interviews after their return ...
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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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The BBC correspondent Alan Johnston arrives back in the UK following his release from captivity in Gaza.
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A TV cameraman held prisoner for years at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has issued an impassioned plea for the release of a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza.
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Alan Johnston tells how his last hour of captivity was perhaps the worst - and how after 114 days what he really wanted was a haircut