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| US journalist Terry Anderson, held hostage in Lebanon in 1980s, dies |
| 2024-04-23 |
| [Guardian] Terry Anderson, a US journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolise the plight of western hostages during the country’s 1975-90 civil war, has died aged 76, his daughter said. The former chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, who was the longest-held hostage of the scores of westerners abducted in Lebanon, died on Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, said Sulome Anderson, who was born three months after her father was seized. No cause of death was given. Kept in barely lit cells by mostly Shia Muslim groups in what was known as the hostage crisis, and chained by his hands and feet and blindfolded much of the time, the former marine later recalled that he "almost went insane" and that only his Catholic faith prevented him from killing himself before he was freed in December 1991. "Though my father’s life was marked by extreme suffering during his time as a hostage in captivity, he found a quiet, comfortable peace in recent years. I know he would choose to be remembered not by his very worst experience, but through his humanitarian work with the Vietnam Children’s Fund, the Committee to Protect Journalists, homeless veterans and many other incredible causes," Anderson said. The family would take some time to organise a memorial, she said. Related: Terry Anderson 02-/18/2008 BBC backpedals after calling Mughniyeh a "great national leader"Terry Anderson 12-/18/2007 Iranian intelligence official visits Lebanon |
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