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Sun 06 Jun 2007BBC reporter may be freed todayA Hamas official said today that BBC reporter Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza three months ago, will be released today."The BBC journalist will be released within the next hours, today," Abu Osameh al-Mo'ti, representative of the Palestinian Islamist group in Iran, told reporters in Tehran.