BBC reporter kidnapped in Gaza is alive: Abbas

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Source: Agence France-Presse

BBC reporter kidnapped in Gaza is alive: Abbas

15 minutes ago

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said Thursday
his intelligence officials had information that BBC journalist Alan Johnston,
kidnapped more than a month ago in Gaza, was "still alive."

"Our intelligence services have confirmed to me that he is alive," Abbas
told reporters during a visit to Stockholm, adding that he wanted "to
acquire his release alive."

Johnston, 44, was snatched at gunpoint from his car as he drove home
from work in Gaza City on March 12 and has become the longest-held
Westerner in the increasingly lawless territory.

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