Terry Anderson, US journalist held hostage in Lebanon, dead at 76

By Alistair Bell (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 country’s 1975-1990 civil war, died on Sunday at age 76, his former employer the Associated Press said. Kept in barely-lit cells…

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