It is 66 days since BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was abducted by a group of armed men in Gaza. Thursday is his birthday.
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Alan is one of more than 200 BBC correspondents - an extraordinary group of people who remain in the world's trouble spots just as everyone else is getting out.
For 75 years they have been eyewitnesses to history.
Required often to be brave, dedicated and courageous, they endure hardship and danger because they believe a story needs to be told.
But the bomb, the kidnap, the gunshot are the correspondent's worst nightmare. They are the foreign editor's too.
