BBC journalist captors in chilling death threat by Sakher Abu El Oun
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Palestinian extremists claiming to hold BBC journalist Alan Johnston on Tuesday issued a chilling threat to slaughter him "like a lamb" unless Britain and Jordan release Muslim prisoners.
In a statement emailed to AFP, the Army of Islam demanded the release of an Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, who has been sentenced to death in Jordan over triple hotel attacks in Amman that killed 60 people in November 2005.
It also demanded the release of Abu Mohammed al-Maqdissi -- held in Jordan since July 2005 -- and Palestinian-born radical cleric Abu Qatada once fingered as Al-Qaeda's "spiritual head" in Europe and held in Britain.
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