Terry Anderson was a pawn in a nasty game, and a hero for journalists
by Mother Jones
Mother Jones— Beirut was the place to be if you were an action-junkie journalist in the 1980s. Civil War. Militias, the PLO, an Israeli invasion, the occupation of Lebanon. Car Bombings. Truck bombings. And more. It was an exotic city with an ancient corniche winding along the Mediterranean to the snow-capped Shouf mountains some 30 miles away. […]
Newsweek—Terry Anderson, American Journalist Held Hostage for Years, Dies at 76. Terry Anderson, a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press who was held hostage for nearly seven years in Lebanon during the 1980s, died on Sunday, his daughter Sulome Anderson told Newsweek.The ContextAnderson was born in Lorain, Ohio, on October 27, 1947. After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps where he rose to the rank of staff sergeant and completed two tours during the Vietnam War, according to the AP.Following his military service, he studied at Iowa...
@pressfreedom—‘Part of the CPJ family’: Journalist, former hostage Terry Anderson dies at 76. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply saddened by the death of Terry Anderson, journalist and CPJ’s former vice chair and honorary chairman. Anderson, a former Associated Press journalist who was kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon for six years, knew firsthand the threats that faced journalists seeking to report freely, and was an
BBC News—Terry Anderson: US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for years dies at 76. Anderson was captured by Islamist militants and held for nearly seven years during Lebanon's civil war.