al-Qaeda is willing to consider prisoner swap with West
Afp, Dubai
al-Qaeda said in a video posted on the Internet yesterday that it was ready to consider exchanges of prisoners with Western nations and singled out a radical cleric under arrest in Britain. The cleric, Abu Qatada, has offered to play a role in helping to secure the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who went missing in Gaza City on March 12 and is the longest-held Westerner in the Gaza Strip. "Qaeda al-Jihad Organisation in Khorasan (Afghanistan) announces its readiness to receive any Muslim captive exchanged with any party by any party, whether he is from those with whom the prisons of the states of the Cross are choked, or one of those imprisoned in other states of infidelity and apostasy," Abu Laith al-Libi, "the Libyan", said in the video. "Foremost among these captives is the virtuous sheikh and caller Abu Qatada al-Filistini, who is being kept in one of the prisons of Britain," said Laith.
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