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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The Islamist group won the release Wednesday of a British reporter, solidifying its standing in troubled Gaza.
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Hamas said on Wednesday it was working to secure the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, whose 100 days of captivity in the hands of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip was marked by journalists and other supporters in worldwide vigils.
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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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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.
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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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Hamas said Tuesday that it is making intense, round-the-clock efforts to secure the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston and expressed hope he would be freed within days.
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Hamas's armed wing will release an audio tape on Monday of an Israeli soldier seized by militants in Gaza a year ago, a senior official in the Islamist movement said.
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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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Hamas leader Ismail Haniya says a new video shows BBC reporter Alan Johnston wearing an explosives belt.
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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 BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Monday by unknown assailants, Palestinian police sources said.
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A spokesman for the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBCâs Gaza reporter was arrested, as were two others.
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A Hamas official described Israel&#039;s detention of dozens of lawmakers from the group as hostage-taking but would not say whether it would be willing to turn over an Israeli soldier for their release.
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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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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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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.