"Double Blast Devastates Marines, French; Scores Dead"
Simultaneous Suicide Attacks Made by Islamic Jihad on American and French Compounds in Beirut, Lebanon
News article
By: Terry A. Anderson
Date: October 23, 1983
Source: The Associated Press.
About the Author: Terry A. Anderson (1947–) was the head of The Associated Press Beirut bureau when, in 1983, he was kidnapped by a group of Hezbollah Shiite Muslims. He was eventually held for 2,454 days (about seven years) before being released. After being freed, Anderson actively publicized the right for freedom of the press, taught courses at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, appeared on various radio and television shows as guest and host, and wrote the best-selling book...
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