BBC reporter's captors release video

June 1 - In a video released by Army of Islam, kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston says he is in good health and has been treated well by his captors.

The video, posted on an Islamist Web site, is the first tangible evidence that Johnston was alive after being kidnapped on March 12, 2007. It was not clear when the video was taped.

The group repeated its demand on the video for Britain to free Muslim prisoners, particularly the Islamist cleric Abu Qatada.

Abu Qatada, a radical Islamic cleric suspected of close links to al Qaeda, has been described by the British government as a "significant international terrorist".

He is one of more than a dozen Arab men whom Britain has been holding under detention or house arrest as threats to national security, while acknowledging that it does not have sufficient evidence to put them on trial.