Thursday, July 05, 2007

Johnston Case Exposes Western Hypocrisy

Courtesy Of: AlJazeera
UPDATED ON:THURSDAY, JULY 05, 20073:22
MECCA TIME, 0:22 GMT

The head of the clan linked to the kidnapping of Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, has criticised the outcry over his abduction saying it exposes double standards on the part of the international community.

Sheikh Saleh Dughmush, the head of the Dughmush clan, told Al Jazeera's Rageh Omaar:

"The Israelis arrest people left, right and centre, using the excuse of terrorism.

"When one Westerner seems to be under threat, the whole world stops and pays attention."
Johnston praised Hamas for winning his freedom.

"If it hadn't been for that real serious Hamas pressure, that commitment to tidying up Gaza's many, many security problems, then I might have been in that room for a lot longer," he told a news conference

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