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BBC's Alan Johnston: I Imagined My Beheading

[Telegraph-UK] Nicole Martin - Alan Johnston, 45, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza for 114 days, has recalled how he sat in his cell, visualizing his own bloody death at the hands of his captors. In an interview for BBC1's Panorama, he described the moment one of his captors walked into his cell with a set of chains and told him he may be killed in "the Zarqawi way." Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, made a number of videos showing prisoners being beheaded. "I imagined being put into that red suit they would make me wear for videos," Johnston said. "I imagined one of them in a hood and one of them putting a knee in my back, and then my throat being cut." "Perhaps there's more to life than working in dangerous places," he concluded.
2007-10-26 01:00:00
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