Wednesday, July 04, 2007

BBC reporter Alan Johnston released

BBC reporter Alan Johnston smiles as he enjoys first taste of freedom

Kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston is free after an ordeal lasting almost four months.

The BBC reporter was released from his captors in Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday morning and said he felt "the most unimaginable relief".

A British consular official later said that Mr Johnston had set off in a convoy for Jerusalem in the company of British diplomats.

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