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Post by Pink Betty on Apr 21, 2007 8:38:24 GMT
from the bbc More than 35,000 people have signed a petition calling on anyone who has any influence on the situation to increase their efforts to secure Alan's immediate release. |
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Post by sandywinder on Apr 22, 2007 11:20:19 GMT
The idiot should not have been there in the first place.
Harsh but fair.
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Post by Fon Doo on Apr 22, 2007 11:30:57 GMT
Quite right Sandywinder. Journos should keep their sticky beaks out of dangerous parts of the world. Let the bally natives kill themselves, what!
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Apr 22, 2007 11:42:15 GMT
Having already killed the guy off after listening to a rather pessimistic Talk radio newscast - I'll stick to BBC - I'm more than keen for him to arise for the dead.
Have I said this elsewhere...well to say it again he seemed like a very good journalist to me and a fine fellow from what I've seen. You only recognise these people when they're shown broadcasting and then you think...oh its him!
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Post by Pink Betty on Apr 22, 2007 12:05:55 GMT
I think Sandy and Fondoo have been harsh and unfair.
Journalists are so important in regions where there is strife. If there was no one to report the death and destruction there would only be more of it.
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Post by sandywinder on Apr 24, 2007 8:55:38 GMT
I think Sandy and Fondoo have been harsh and unfair. Journalists are so important in regions where there is strife. If there was no one to report the death and destruction there would only be more of it. I rather thought Fon Doo (no doubt a visitor from thee cheese board) was being a bit sarcastic myself. But how exactly have all these journalists stopped any violence from occurring? All I have noticed is them being used as pawns for blackmail purposes. And who is sending them to risk their deaths for no useful purpose whatever? Only us with our BBC licence fees. P.S. I thought Gaza had retired.   |
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Apr 29, 2007 13:46:15 GMT
Its no good he's still captured by the Cheesers and anyway its his own fault for being gullible.
Oh sry..wrong Al Johnson.
Now today is Gargoyles birthday but I wouldnt know it without the Cheesers assistance. So Mel can you get yer finger out and give him a suitable luxurious platter for a Taurean bloke.
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Post by Pink Betty on May 17, 2007 7:29:04 GMT
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Post by sandywinder on May 17, 2007 10:18:33 GMT
I'd send him a card but I don't know where he is.
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Post by motorist on May 17, 2007 10:20:52 GMT
I'd send him a card but I don't know where he is. I can just imagine him sendign you back one "Being horrendously tortured by my captors. Wish you were here..." ;D ;D (sorry, that joke was a bit ghoulish ) |
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Post by Pink Betty on Jun 1, 2007 18:48:00 GMT
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Post by sandywinder on Jun 2, 2007 6:46:18 GMT
Good PR for the extremists.
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Jun 4, 2007 16:55:54 GMT
He looks as white as the whitest sheet.. ...one gets the feeling that theres a gun in the vicinity trained at his head..and a script. |
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Post by Instant Mel on Jun 20, 2007 23:03:24 GMT
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Post by kipper on Jun 21, 2007 9:53:06 GMT
I think the furore has helped Alan Johnson... I hope it has.
Better him released and back on the broadcasting circuit than that fat poseur, John Simpson (sorry, is that fatist?)
I have a solution to future abductions...Sandy will support :
Always offer terrorists a "swap". They get one of our prominant politicians in exchange for the journalist/aid-worker/soldier.
Think how easier it will be when we see Peter Mandelson, Hazel Blears, Miliband <insert your own politician here>chained up and pasty-faced.
And ... you can always rely on them to have something inocuous to say to Al-Jasiera cameras.
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