Reports say video of Alan Johnston
posted on website
The missing BBC journalist Alan Johnston who was captured in Gaza more than two months has been shown in a video, saying he was "fit and well" and not being mistreated by his captors.
The video was apparently posted on the internet by the Army of Islam group and contains the first images of the reporter since his kidnap on March 12.
Mr Johnston first reassures everyone that he is in good health and then goes on to deliver a stinging attack on British foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The BBC correspondent appeared calm throughout the video, in which he was shown sitting down wearing an orange sweatshirt and speaking directly to camera. He started by saying: "My captors have treated me very well, they have fed me well, there has been no violence toward me at all and I am in good health."
Johnston then moved on to talking about the "huge suffering" he had seen in the Palestinian territories in the past three years and said it was "continuing and unacceptable".
Palestinian people were in "absolute despair" after nearly 40 years of Israeli occupation which has been "supported by the West", he added just before the tape corrupts. It picks up again with him claiming the situation on Iraq was "even worse".
He said: "We see every day maybe a hundred or more being killed by the violence there, which followed the failed invasion of Iraq by America and Britain. Ordinary people who are losing everything cannot live their lives properly, not just because of the violence but the shortage of everything they need for their normal lives and for bringing up their children.
"Afghanistan, again, is terrible. We see on our television screens ordinary and village people suffering as the armies of America and Britain attack."
The British Government was "endlessly working to occupy Muslim lands against the will of the people in those places", he went on.
He added: "From history, the British worked to bring about the state of Israel which is the cause of all the suffering of the Palestinian people. We the British are completely to blame along with the Americans for the situation in Iraq, and the British are the main force in Afghanistan causing all the trouble to all the simple Afghans who simply want to live."
Courtesy from AOL
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