114 days

Finally Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist who had been kidnapped in Gaza for 114 days has been released. The main story is here on the BBC website.
For him it has been sorted but not every kidnapped person or journalist is so lucky and so many are killed everyday in violence that doesn't seem to be warranted.
I'll hold my hands up because I am not a religious person and know very little about religion but how this violence and kidnappings are supposed to help anybody escapes me.
For example, the recent car bombs found in London and the car driven into the terminal at Glasgow airport with the clear intent of causing harm to innocent people strikes me with fear. Anywhere, anyone at anytime could be plotting some sort of attack that devastates average people. The terror threat may have been decreased to "severe" but how people could contemplate such horror is scary to me and I cannot comprehend reasons behind such things.

I am way out of my depth to explain the terror situation or the Alan Johnston cicrumstances but blogs like these provide a more detailed look at things. Robin Hamman http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/07/alan-johnston-i.html and someone who calls themself "gateway pundit" http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/bbc-journalist-alan-johnston-released.html .

While they are a whole host of other example this one deals with what I briefly outlined earlier: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/07/after_alan_johnston_is_there_m.html written by Jemima Kiss for the Guardian on the continued fight for other people to be released as it says 29 journalists kidnapped this year - it is supposed to be a job not a threat to life.

This is the latest on the Terror situation by someone called Cernig over at http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/07/briatin-reduces-terror-threat-level.html

How wonderful the interent has become for this type of thing. So many views, opinions, perceptions and outcomes from all over the world on every topic imaginable.

I am will leave you now to feast into the troth of blogs available I have listed and on the web sphere and next time I post lets hope Madeline McCann has been found safe and well....