Kidnapped BBC Journalist Freed

Hamas is trying to curry favour with the West. How else can you explain this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_kidnapped_journalist. Then again, Johnston was nothing but a mouthpiece for the Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular, so it is certainly in the self-interest of the terrorist group to see him out there reporting again.