Former chief Middle East correspondent was longest-held western hostage of Shia Muslim groups during crisis
Terry Anderson arriving for a press conference in the Syrian foreign ministry in Damascus after his release in December 1991.Terry Anderson arriving for a press conference in the Syrian foreign ministry in Damascus after his release in December 1991.Terry Anderson, a US journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolise the plight of western hostages during the country’s 1975-90 civil war, has died aged 76, his daughter said.
“Though my father’s life was marked by extreme suffering during his time as a hostage in captivity, he found a quiet, comfortable peace in recent years. I know he would choose to be remembered not by his very worst experience, but through his humanitarian work with the Vietnam Children’s Fund, the Committee to Protect Journalists, homeless veterans and many other incredible causes,” Anderson said.Anderson‘s ordeal began in Beirut on the morning of 16 March 1985, after he played a game of tennis.
Shortly after his release, he said: “What kept me going? My companions. I was lucky to have people with me most of the time. My faith, stubbornness. You do what you have to. You wake up every day, summon up the energy from somewhere. You think you haven’t got it and you get through the day and you do it. Day after day after day.”
“There is a limit of how long we can last and some of us are approaching the limit very badly,” Anderson said in a videotape released by his captors in December 1987. His sister, Peggy Say, who died in 2015, was his fiercest advocate during captivity. She visited Arab and European capitals, lobbied the Pope, the archbishop of Canterbury and every US official and politician available.
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