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Hope for Johnston release fading
FREEDOM HOPES FADE FOR KIDNAPPED JOURNALIST
Hopes were fading today that kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston would be
freed when there was still no sign of the captured Gaza correspondent.
There had been hopes that the reporter would walk free at some point today
after Hamas officials indicated that his release was imminent.
But by late afternoon there was still no evidence that the captured BBC
correspondent's ordeal was over.
After taking control of the Gaza Strip last week, Hamas officials said they had
made contact with Mr Johnston's kidnappers and would work to win his release.
Negotiations were said to be taking place between Hamas and Mr Johnston's
captors through a mediator.
Earlier today Hamas spokesman Islam Shahwan said: "All I can say is that Alan
will be free very soon."
Mr Johnston, 45, from Argyll, has been held since March when he was snatched by
a group believed to have some links to Hamas.
A message purporting to be from his captors has demanded the release of Islamic
prisoners, including a cleric being held in Britain.
He was seen for the first time since his abduction in a video posted two weeks
ago on a website used by Islamic militants. He appeared calm and said he was
being well-treated and was in good health.
His disappearance is the longest of any Western journalist abducted in Gaza and
has sparked numerous protests and solidarity marches in London and the
Palestinian territories.
Palestinian officials have said they know where to find Mr Johnston, but have
held back on raiding the hideout at Britain's request, for fear of harming him.
The Foreign Office said they were aware of reports saying he may soon be
released and that they were investigating.
Abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston could be freed in the next few hours, according to a Hamas official.
Abu Osameh al-Mo'ti, representative of the Palestinian Islamist group in Iran, told reporters in Tehran: "The BBC journalist will be released within the next hours, today."
Johnston, the only Western correspondent based full-time in Gaza, was seized on March 12.
His abductors, the Army of Islam, issued a video of him on June 1 in which he said he was in good health and being treated well, although it was not known when the tape was made.
A BBC spokesman in London declined to comment.
Hamas previously said it was in an advanced stage of negotiations over the release of Johnston, and al-Mo'ti indicated the talks were still going on. But he did not specify how he knew that
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British forensics police officers remove gas cannisters (L) from the burnt wreckage of a vehicle use to ram a passenger terminal at Glasgow Airport in Scotland, 01 July 2007. A second foreign doctor quizzed by Australian police over the failed British car bombings has been released after questioning and will not face further action, police said Wednesday.(AFP/Pool/File/Mark Runnacles)
Jamil, father of Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, holds a picture of his son shaking hands with Jordan's Queen Noor during his high school graduation, in Amman. Police detained a sixth doctor on Tuesday over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow, as Britain remained on maximum alert for another Al-Qaeda style attack.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)
British policemen maintain a high profile presence outside a London Underground station. A second foreign doctor quizzed by Australian police over the failed British car bombings has been released after questioning and will not face further action, police said Wednesday.(AFP/Chris Young)
A general view of the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, June 3, 2007, where Mohamed Haneef, who has been detained at Brisbane airport in connection with a plan to detonate two car bombs in London and attack Scotland's Glasgow airport using a fuel-laden vehicle, worked as a registrar. (Stringer/Reuters)
A police forensic officer works outside a house on Ramilies Road in Liverpool, northern England, July 2, 2007, following the arrest of a person in connection with the attack at Glasgow Airport. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
British policemen maintain a high profile presence outside a London Underground station. Police detained a sixth doctor on Tuesday over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow, as Britain remained on maximum alert for another Al-Qaeda style attack.(AFP/Chris Young)
Mohammed Asha is seen in this family handout released July 3, 2007. Police were holding eight people on Tuesday, at least four of them foreign doctors, over a suspected al Qaeda plot against Britain that has triggered a manhunt stretching as far as Australia. Of the doctors held over the plot, British police sources named one as Mohammed, who qualified in Jordan in 2004. REUTERS/Handout (JORDAN)
Yunis Da'na (L) and his wife Eslah Da'na, the parents of Marwa, who is the wife of Mohammed Asha, hold a photograph of their daughter in Amman July 3, 2007. Mohammad and Marwa were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. REUTERS/Muhammad hamed (JORDAN)
British policemen check the permit papers of a London taxi driver as he approaches Charing Cross railway station in central London, 02 July 2007. Australian police have arrested an Indian doctor in connection with Britain's car bomb plot just as he was trying to leave the country, authorities said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Chris Young)
Eslah Da'na, the mother of Marwa, the wife of Mohammed Asha, holds a photograph of her daughter in Amman July 3, 2007. Mohammad and Marwa were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN)
An excellence award presented to Mohammed Asha, when he was in primary school, is displayed in Amman July 3, 2007. Mohammad Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. Asha qualified as a doctor in Jordan in 2004. The award reads: "The staff members of Ibn Zahar school congratulate the student Mohammed Jameel on his excellence and wish to him all the progress". REUTERS/Mohammad Asha's family/Handout (JORDAN). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.
Forensics police officers remove gas canisters (L) from the burnt wreckage of a vehicle use to ram a passenger terminal at Glasgow Airport, 01 July 2007. Police have detained a sixth doctor over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow, as Britain remained on maximum alert for another Al-Qaeda style attack.(AFP/Pool/File/Mark Runnacles)
Armed police patrol through Glasgow Airport, 02 July 2007. Police have detained a sixth doctor over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow, as Britain remained on maximum alert for another Al-Qaeda style attack.(AFP/File/Kieran Dodds)
Armed police officers patrol Glasgow Airport in Scotland July 2, 2007. (David Moir/Reuters)
A general view of Jubilee High School where Mohammed Asha attended school in Amman July 3, 2007. Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. Asha qualified as a doctor in 2004 in Jordan. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN)
A file picture of Mohammed Asha provided by his family during an interview with Reuters in Amman, July 2, 2007. Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed
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Members of Glasgows Asian community walk together after attending prayers at the Masjid Noor mosque in the Pollockshields area of Glasgow, Scotland July 3, 2007. In Scotland, police have carried out four controlled explosions at a hospital linked to at least one of those arrested in connection with Saturdays attack on Glasgow Airport, and at the Masjid Noor Mosque in the biggest city, Glasgow. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN)
Members of Glasgow's Asian community talk in the car park of the Masjid Noor Mosque in the Pollockshields area of Glasgow, Scotland, July 3, 2007. In Scotland, police have carried out four controlled explosions at a hospital linked to at least one of those arrested in connection with Saturdays attack on Glasgow Airport, and at the Masjid Noor Mosque in the biggest city, Glasgow. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN)
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Police officers stand on guard outside Scotland Yard, central London, Tuesday, July 3, 2007. Britain has moved to the highest level of terror alert, 'critical', after two car bombs were defused in the capital, and a suspected terrorist attack on Glasgow airport. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson)
A family photo made by a cellphone of Mohammed Jamil Asha holding his baby boy Anas, left, with his mother in law Eslah, center, and his wife Marwa Da'na, right, made available in Amman, Jordan Tuesday July 3, 2007. Mohammed Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday July 2, 2007. Asha qualified as a doctor in 2004 in Jordan and is also a registered medical practitioner in Britain. British media said Asha worked at a hospital in central England. (AP Photo/Family HO)
Ahmed Shafiq, the Asian owner of a newsagents in Riddrie near Glasgow, speaks to the media after it was damaged by fire overnight when a vehicle was driven in to it, Scotland July 3, 2007. Attackers rammed a car into an Asian-owned newsagants near Scotlands biggest city on Tuesday and set it ablaze in what neighbours feared was revenge for Saturdays assault on the citys airport. Police said there is nothing at this time to link it to the incident on Saturday. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN)
A family photo made by a cellphone of Marwa Da'na, wife of Mohammed Jamil Asha and their 1-year-old son Anas, made available in Amman, Jordan Tuesday July 3, 2007. Mohammed Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. Asha qualified as a doctor in 2004 in Jordan and is also a registered medical practitioner in Britain. British media said Asha worked at a hospital in central England. (AP Photo/Family HO)
A family photo of Mohammed Asha shaking hands with Queen Noor of Jordan, left, during his high school graduation in 1998, made available in Amman, Jordan Tuesday, July 3, 2007. Mohammed Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday July 2, 2007. Asha qualified as a doctor in 2004 in Jordan and is also a registered medical practitioner in Britain. British media said Asha worked at a hospital in central England. (AP Photo/Family HO)
Mohammed Asha shakes hands with Jordan's Queen Noor (L) in this handout picture released by Asha's family July 3, 2007. Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. REUTERS/Asha's family/Handout (JORDAN)
British police comb through the crime scene at Glasgow Airport, 02 July 2007, two days after a blazing jeep was driven into the airport terminal building. Police have detained a sixth doctor over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow, as Britain remained on maximum alert for another Al-Qaeda style attack.(AFP/Kieran Dodds)
AFP - Tue Jul 3, 10:22 AM ET Pedestrians walk past the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, Queensland. Police were holding up to six doctors in connection with the failed bombings in London and Glasgow after an Indian physician was detained in Australia. The Indian doctor had been working at the Gold Coast hospital since September.(AFP/Heather Faulkner)
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Muhammad Abdul Bari, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain makes a statement in Whitechapel, London, Tuesday, July 3, 2007, condemning the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. In the latest attacks, two car bombs failed to explode in central London on Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport and then set it on fire Saturday. The British government security official said investigators were working on one theory that the same people may have driven the explosives-laden cars into London and the blazing SUV in Glasgow. (AP Photo/Fiona Hanson/PA)
Muhammad Abdul Bari, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain speaks at a news conference in London July 3, 2007. British police questioned eight people on Tuesday, at least three of them doctors, over a suspected al Qaeda plot to detonate car bombs in London and Scotland after the investigation spread as far as Australia. REUTERS/Stephen Hird (BRITAIN)
From left, Daud Abdullah, Deputy Secretary General, Muhammad Abdul Bari the Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General, Inayat Bunglawala, members of the Muslim Council of Britain, make a statement in Whitechapel, London, Tuesday, July 3, 2007, condemning the recent car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. (AP Photo/Fiona Hanson/PA)
This three picture combo provided by the National Army Museum shows views of artist Gerald Laing's work 'Truth Or Consequences,' at National Army Museum, London, Monday July 2, 2007. The painting blaming British and U.S. foreign policy for a terrorist attack in the British capital two years ago has sparked controversy after going on display at museum. 'Truth or Consequences,' places former Prime Minister Tony Blair next to the shattered remains of a double-decker bus, that was blown up during the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings. Four British Muslim suicide attackers killed 52 commuters on three subway trains and a bus. The art work is set on a series of strips placed at a 45-degree angle, and the full image of Blair and the bus can only be seen by standing to the right, as seen at top. When viewed from the left side, the image is of U.S. President George W. Bush beside an image of Baghdad being bombed during the war as seen at bottom. Laing, a former British Army officer, said he wanted audiences to draw a link between U.S. and British actions in the Middle East and the upsurge in terrorist activity. (AP Photo/Ian Nicholson/PA)
Artist Gerald Laing with his work 'Truth Or Consequences,' at the National Army Museum, in London, Monday July 2, 2007. The painting blaming British and U.S. foreign policy for a terrorist attack in the British capital two years ago has sparked controversy after going on display at the museum. 'Truth or Consequences,' places former Prime Minister Tony Blair next to the shattered remains of a double-decker bus that was blown up during the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings. Four British Muslim suicide attackers killed 52 commuters on three subway trains and a bus. The art work is set on a series of strips placed at a 45-degree angle, and the full image of Blair and the bus can only be seen by standing to the right. When viewed from the left side, as seen here, the image is of U.S. President George W. Bush beside an image of Baghdad being bombed during the war. Laing, a former British Army officer, said he wanted audiences to draw a link between U.S. and British actions in the Middle East and the upsurge in terrorist activity. (AP Photo/Ian Nicholson/PA)
A general view of the unit block where Mohamed Haneef lived in Southport on the Gold Coast in Queensland June 3, 2007. Haneef was detained at Brisbane airport in connection with a plan to detonate two car bombs in London and attack Scotland's Glasgow airport using a fuel-laden vehicle. REUTERS/Stringer (AUSTRALIA) AUSTRALIA OUT NEW ZEALAND OUT
A police forensics officer examines a Mercedes car in Haymarket in central London, 29 June 2007, in what police said contained a "potentially viable explosive device" outside the Tiger Tiger Bar. The failure of three car bomb attacks in Britain betrayed an almost bungling execution of the plan even though there is a growing pool of militants ready to strike, European analysts said.(AFP/Pool/File/Clara Molden)
An armed patrol through Glasgow Airport in Scotland, 02 July 2007, two days after a blazing Jeep was driven into the airport terminal building. Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion of a vehicle parked near a mosque in Glasgow, police said.(AFP/Kieran Dodds)
A police forensic officer wlaks near a car outside the Forth Street Mosque in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, July 3, 2007, after bomb disposal officers performed controlled explosions on a vehicle in the car park. The controlled explosion was carried out early Tuesday morning on a suspicious car parked outside the mosque in Glasgow, the city were two men attempted to set off a car bomb at the airport on Saturday. Police said there was no indication that the mosque had any connection to the bombing attempt in Glasgow, or to two cars packed with gasoline and gas canisters discovered in London on Friday. (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Police said in a statement the two in custody were suspected of trying to swindle the McCanns, who have launched a Europe-wide search for their daughter after she disappeared two months ago during a family holiday in Portugal.
The investigation was still continuing, however, and the two suspects were being held in Spanish custody, the statement said.
"Police began to investigate them after getting information that they had tried to contact Madeleine's parents to collect a reward," the statement said.
Spanish authorities told Italian diplomats in Spain the man had no connection with Madeleine's disappearance.
The Italian man was arrested on an international warrant issued from France, where he was wanted for alleged association with a crime group, the police statement said.
He had served an 18-month sentence in France for child mistreatment, specifically his daughter, it said. A Spanish police spokeswoman said the warrant itself had nothing to do with the McCann case.
The Portuguese woman was detained due to her association with the Italian man, and there was no warrant for her arrest, the spokeswoman said.
Both the man and woman were arrested on Thursday morning in Sotogrande, a town in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz. Two Portuguese detectives took part in the arrests, police in Lisbon said. "We thought they might be involved in the Madeleine case. It is a possibility, but we have found no concrete evidence yet," Portuguese police inspector Olegario Sousa said. He declined to provide further details.
Members of the McCann family in Britain said they were withholding comment until more information was known. "We have no comment to make, because we know no more than we have seen on the news," said John McCann, brother of Madeleine's father, Gerry.
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