BBC REPORTER KIDNAPPED IN GAZA

A BBC reporter has become the latest victim of Muslim extremists in the Middle East. The reporter, Alan Johnson, was kidnapped by masked Palestinian gunmen as he was driving in Gaza City Monday, according to news reports. A spokesman for Hamas, which now controls the Palestinian government, told he Associated Press, "We call on these criminal groups to stop this destruction of our reputation and to let this journalist free."

13/03/2007