Ynet News reports BBC's Alan Johnston executed

Ynet News site is reporting that Alan Johnston, the BBC's Gaza correspondent,has been executed by a Palestinian group associated with Al Qaeda, the Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades. (via Adloyada).

Responding to the statement, the BBC said it is "aware of these reports -- but we have no independent verification of them. We are deeply concerned about what we are hearing -- but we stress, at this stage, it is rumour with no independent verification."

In the message, the group said the British and Palestinian governments were responsible for Johnston's killing, and vowed to release a video of the execution.

"The whole world knows of our just cause in demanding the release of our prisoners, who are waiting under the fire of the occupation," the statement began. "Our demand was that all of those who are responsible for the journalist... release our prisoners who are being held in the prisons of the occupation," it continued.

"The whole world made so much noise about this foreign journalist, while it took no action over our thousands of prisoners," the declaration said. (Ynet)

The terrorists are promising to 'disseminate a video' showing the killing. Read here about the lack of proper coverage of Mr. Johnston's kidnapping.

Adloyada has this:

The enormous irony of this is that so many of Alan Johnston's broadcasts from Gaza tended to apologize for Palestinian terrorism. His father's first public appeal to his captors on his behalf spoke of him as *a friend of the Palestinian people.* Most ironic of all, the NUJ, of which presumably Alan was a member, has just voted in a grandstanding display of gesture politics to boycott Iaraeli goods in support of a one-sided condemnation of Israel

It doesn't matter to the terrorists if you cozy up to them or not. If it suits their purposes, they will use you any way they can.

I hope this report of Mr. Johnston's death is wrong.

Comments

[Stormwarning]

While I am usually rue to cite World Net Daily, they have a report that suggests that he may still be alive.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55264

It seems that they're aren't the only ones to make that claim, either.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=alan+johnston+alive&btnG=Search

[fidothedog]

One has to ask that if he has been butched by those animals, will the BBC condemn them or are they still going to play the leftist card to the hilt?

[michael]

And how is this article any surprise?

Pali terrorist groups have turned kidnapping and murder into an art form.
This is just a warning to the world that their fight is not with Israel or "the Jews," it is with the entire non-muslim western world.

Israel is just the canary in the coal mine.