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• Hope renewed for kidnapped BBC reporter

  June 1 2007 5:58pm (UTC+8)  -  Article by Pun

  A video has been posted on a radical Islamic group website with abducted BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnson saying that his captors have treated him well, and that he's in good health. The Army of Islam posted the video today, following his kidnapping in March.
  
  "First of all, my captors have treated me very well," Johnston said.
  
  "They have fed me well, there has been no violence towards me at all and I'm in good health."
  
  The group has demanded on the video for Britain to free all Muslim prisoners, including the Islamist cleric Abu Qatada.
  
  Abu Qatada is a radical Islamic cleric who is suspected of having close links to Al-Qaeda and is described as a significant international terrorist.
  
  Alan Johnson was kidnapped on March 12th. His car was found abandoned on a street shortly after he left his office to drive home. On April 15th there was unconfirmed reports he had been murdered, later declared by Palestinian intelligence sources to be false.
  
  It's not yet known when the video was recorded.
  
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