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      A little good news for once 😉

      Have been reading a lot about this the last many months..I’m glad he’s alive and well after the circumstances..

      Probably need a lot of help to get over what he have been going through..

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      BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity.

      Mr Johnston, 45, was handed over to armed men in Gaza City. He said his ordeal was like “being buried alive” but it was “fantastic” to be free.

      And he described how he had been unable to see the sun for three months, and had once been chained for 24 hours.

      Rallies worldwide had called for Mr Johnston’s release. An online petition was signed by some 200,000 people.

      Mr Johnston’s father Graham said he and his wife were “overjoyed” at their son’s release.

      “It’s been 114 days of a living nightmare,” he said.

      UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown also expressed his joy at Mr Johnston’s release.

      Rest of the story here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6267928.stm

      Yeah i woke up to this on the news!

      Good to see some good news coming from the Middle East for a change raaa

      raaaraaaraaaraaaraaa

      Thank goodness they have handed him back :weee:

      :bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

      :horay: :horay: Yey!

      i’m pleased that he’s alive and well, but it seems bizarre how much attention this case has received when people are dying there every day… including children :yakk:

      globalloon wrote:
      i’m pleased that he’s alive and well, but it seems bizarre how much attention this case has received when people are dying there every day… including children :yakk:

      Yeah, true. the funny thing is he was one of the few western journo’s in a position to witness the sufferin.

      Can’t imagine he will continue in Gaza…

      yeah it’s wickid

      i said when hamas took over… say what you like about ’em, but they have backbone and if they say they’ll get him released, the bloody well will

      shame about all the other crazy shit they pull… still, that whole issue is cos we promised we would recognise a democratic election, hamas won and we didn’t “recognise” it… i’d be a bit pissed off if i were in hamas tbh

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