UPDATED: HAMAS HOLDING KIDNAPPED ISRAELI SOLDIER

WHILE THE WORLD THANKS THE BLOODTHIRSTY TERRORISTS OF HAMAS FOR ENGAGING IN THE CHARADE OF FREEING THE BBC REPORTER FROM A GROUP AFFILIATED WITH HAMAS, THERE IS SILENCE ON THE KIDNAPPED ISRAELI SOLIDER BEING HELD BY HAMAS.

Schalit's kidnappers: We handed him over to Hamas (JPost)
The kidnappers of Cpl. Gilad Schalit have transferred him to the custody of Hamas, Abu Mutfana - a leader in the Army of Islam - said Wednesday in an interview broadcast on Channel 10.

Abu Mutfana, who spoke on television with his face obscured by a kaffiyeh, called on Schalit's family to "pressure your government to release the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim prisoners held in Israeli prisons."

Otherwise, Abu Mutfana warned, the Army of Islam "would take action."

Abu Mutfana stressed that the cross-border raid near Kerem Shalom in which Schalit was abducted over a year ago had been carefully planned by his group in cooperation with the Aksa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees.

The Army of Islam, Abu Mutfana said, had been holding Schalit but had handed him over to Hamas because they had been "busy with other things."

However, a Channel 10 commentator said that Hamas had offered Abu Mutfana's group money and weapons in exchange for Schalit.

Overnight Tuesday, the Army of Islam released BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza nearly four months ago.

In response to Johnston's release, Abu Mutfada told Hamas that their victory celebrations wouldn't last long.

"You're banging your drums as if Alan Johnston were a soldier in the Army of Islam that you freed from the American tyrants' jails," he said.

Abu Mutfada said that the Army of Islam had freed Johnston of its own free will, and not because of pressure to do so by Hamas.

UPDATE: BBC Journalist Alan Johnston Freed (CAMERA)
After almost 4 months of captivity, Alan Johnston was freed last night in a murky deal between Hamas and the Army of Islam who held him. Johnston describes his experience as terrifying, most of the time spent by himself in a darkened room, his life repeatedly threatened. His release is being greeted with relief.

A Hamas spokesman states they will not arrest the kidnappers, dismantle or disarm the group. An Army of Islam spokesman asserts they will be working again with Hamas (with whom they cooperated to kidnap Gilad Shalit).

All this raises the question--did the Army of Islam ever really have a falling out with Hamas? Or was Johnson's kidnapping and subsequent "rescue mission" indeed coordinated with Hamas?