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Hunt continues for Beeb Gaza reporter
I'm sure they're hunting real hard. Helps drive the price up.
Hope they brought a big bag of money. For everybody... Palestinian security officials say he was kidnapped from his car by masked gunmen, but the BBC says it cannot independently verify these reports. Jeez, after all they've done for them, this is the thanks they get. Other reports in Gaza say he is healthy and negotiations are under way with the abductors to secure his release. The BBC says it is continuing to work with the Palestinian authorities and others to establish the facts surrounding Alan Johnston's disappearance. He disappeared on Monday after leaving the BBC office in Gaza City. Yes. How much and where do you want it? There has been a series of abductions of Westerners in the increasingly lawless Gaza Strip. All were eventually released unharmed. The motives for the abductions were mainly local: unpaid salaries, demands for jobs or the release of jailed family members. It's just the way things are done there. A quaint local custom. No big deal. Until one of them ends up dead when Mahmoud drops his AK-47 and puts a round in their head... Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-15 |
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