[Guardian-UK] Stewart Purvis - Kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston talked about the possibility that one day somebody with a gun would come for him just as they had come for so many foreigners before. With just three weeks to go until the end of his three-year posting in Gaza, his freedom to report came to a sudden halt two weeks ago. He told of how kidnappers regularly demanded a job in the local security services. "It is ironic really, Gaza is the only place in the world where your kidnapper's demand is that he should be allowed to become a policeman."
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