NY - Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, has died.

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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.
Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” he died in Greenwood Lake, New York, said his daughter, Sulome Anderson.

Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, has died

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages, has died.His death Sunday was confirmed by his daughter, Sulome Anderson.

apnews.com

https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/world/terry-anderson-hostage-rewind/index.html

 

[Seni]

I 'm sad he has died. Followed very much the cases of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy. Terry was important to them, incarcelated at same time. Read their stories.

Incredible what they went through.

 

[LadyL]

oh rip to him
I'm going to order his book

eta - just saw that his daughter has a book too about it - The Hostage's Daughter

 

[Seni]

"An Evil Cradling" by Keenan is the best, IMO

 

[dotr]

Apr 21, 2024

Terry Anderson: US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for years dies at 76

Terry Anderson was abducted and detained during Lebanon's civil war in the 1980s when a journalist for AP.

www.bbc.com

''He had just finished playing a game of tennis during a day off when gunmen dragged him into a car and sped away.
His sister Peggy Say, who died in 2015, fiercely advocated for the release of her brother and his fellow captives.
The majority of the more than 100 held between 1982 and 1992 were from the US and western Europe, including Church of England envoy Terry Waite who was taken hostage by the group holding Anderson when negotiations broke down on 20 January 1987. Waite was freed in 1991 after 1,763 days.
Anderson passed on news of the outside world to Waite, who had spent years in solitary confinement, by developing a system of tapping on the walls between their cells.
Both men endured being chained, beaten and threatened. Anderson - who spent much of the time blindfolded and was forced to sleep on a thin, dirty mattress on the floor - later recalled that he "almost went insane", and credited his Catholic faith for saving him.''