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- The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height. The hostages were mostly Americans and Western Europeans, but 21 national origins were represented.
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The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height. [1] The hostages were mostly Americans and Western Europeans, but 21 national origins were represented.
John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years.
Nov 18, 2021 · The Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy went to Lebanon in 1987 to negotiate the release of several captured Britons - but was taken hostage himself.
A British journalist's five-year ordeal comes to an end. John McCarthy was a 29-year-old TV producer on his first foreign assignment when he was snatched at gunpoint in Beirut in 1986. He became...
Apr 22, 2024 · Terry Anderson, a US journalist held hostage for nearly seven years during Lebanon's civil war, has died aged 76. Anderson was the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press (AP)...
Apr 21, 2024 · (Reuters) -Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolize the plight of Western hostages during the...
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
