Alan Johnston, missing journalist RELEASED

Must be a very hard time for the presenters, very sad if this is true.
Nothing mentioned on Al Jazeera English as of yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6557779.stm

Hope it isn't true.

Lets hope he hasn't been killed

It's the second or third headline on the Ten . Hope it's not true...

If true, completely pointless killing. What are these people thinking?

First Terry Lloyd, now (possibly) Alan Johnston. Awful.

Absolutely disgraceful if true. Stating the obvious here, but let us all hope that this is proven to be merely a rumour.

I do hope it isn't true, but the fact there has been no news of his whereabouts gave me a bad feeling. Achieves these groups nothing, so pointless.

I'm afraid you're well wide of the mark if you think those are the only two journalists killed in war zones in recent years.

I meant British TV journalists (seeing as we're posting in a UK TV forum) but I get your point.

And again, no confirmation yet.

Indeed. Reporters Without Borders cites "158 journalists and media assistants killed since the start of fighting in Iraq in March 2003, two still missing, 12 are kidnapped." In terms of British media victims you can certainly add Gaby Rado (Channel 4 News) and Hussein Othman and Frédéric Nérac (ITV News). The reality of the death toll in Iraq - and not just for media outlets - really is astonishing.

Yea, during the Day of Action for Alan, on that special they went through how many journalists have bee killed in various locations around the middle east, quite an astonishing number imo.

In the case of Gaby Rado's death, tragic though it was, you can't really blame the war / Middle East conflict for his death as he fell from a hotel roof in an accident.