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…
Anderson was the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press when he was captured by militants in 1985 during what became known as the Lebanon hostage crisis.
Terry Anderson, the journalist 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.