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American journalist who was held hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s has died
Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson, the longest-held U.S. hostage, who was kidnapped off a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, died Tuesday at age 76.
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Terry Anderson, who chronicled his kidnapping and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir, “Den of Lions,” died Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., the Associated Press reported, citing his daughter, Sulome Anderson.
The cause of death was not immediately known, though his daughter said he had recently undergone heart surgery.
After returning to the United States in 1991, Anderson taught journalism at several universities but also struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, the AP reported.
He won millions of dollars from frozen Iranian assets after a federal court found that the country was liable for his capture, but he eventually lost it all and filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
In 1985, he was among several Westerners kidnapped by members of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah during a period of escalating violence that was plunging Lebanon into chaos.
As the AP’s chief Middle East correspondent, Anderson had reported for several years on the growing violence wracking Lebanon, as the country fought a war with Israel and Iran financed militant groups seeking to overthrow the government.
On March 16, 1985, on a day off, he had stopped to play tennis with a former AP photographer, Don Mell, and was dropping Mell off at his home when armed kidnappers dragged him from his car.
The target, he was told, was because he was one of the few Westerners still in Lebanon, and his role as a journalist made him suspect to Hezbollah.
Nearly seven years of brutal treatment followed, during which he was beaten, chained to a wall, threatened with death, often at gunpoint, and frequently held in solitary confinement for long periods.
Anderson was the longest-held of several Western hostages that Hezbollah kidnapped over the years, including Terry Waite, a former envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury who had come to try to negotiate their release.
By his own account and that of other hostages, he was also the most resistant prisoner, constantly demanding better food and treatment, arguing religion and politics with his captors and teaching other hostages sign language and where to hide messages so they could communicate privately.
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