BBC journalist is said to be alive
From Times Wire Reports
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said his intelligence services confirmed that a British journalist kidnapped in the Gaza Strip is alive, despite a group’s claim to have killed the correspondent.
Alan Johnston of the BBC was abducted March 12. Abbas said he knew which group was holding him, but he would not say whether contact had been established with the captors.
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