Freed BBC Reporter Recounts Long Ordeal in Gaza

[Washington Post] Scott Wilson - At a news conference at the British Consulate in Jerusalem hours after his release, Alan Johnston described in detail the anti-Western philosophy of the group that held him, daily life in the dark rooms of captivity, and what he said was the "special journalism hell" of missing the biggest story of his time in Gaza - the Hamas takeover - because he was locked up. He said Western journalists were right to be "wary" working in Gaza.


2007-07-05 01:00:00

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