BBC Director General Mark Thompson spoke for me (and, I imagine, most people in the world) when he said that news of Alan’s release had given him a “fantastic sense of relief and delight.”
My own sense of relief and delight was all the more fantastic because within days of Alan being taken I went public with my fear that he might already be dead, murdered.
We now know, from Alan’s own account, that he himself thought he was going to be killed when, at about 3.30 on the morning after he was abducted, he was hooded and taken outside.
In my expression of fear as posted to this blog, I said I believed it was wrong to jump to conclusions about who, really, had taken Alan (and might have killed him) and why. I went on to speculate that if one took motive in account, there was a case, repeat acase, for saying that Israel was one of the parties with a motive. That suggestion provoked a barrage of organised Zionist hate mail. Some of which I published.
Question: Does what we know today enable us to be any more certain about who, really, was responsible for Alan’s abduction? I say NO! … continue reading
