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  • Seen in a local shop window, is a newspaper cutting, yellow ribbon and Union Jack flags mark the release of Beirut hostage, the TV journalist John McCarthy. The headline says ‘McCarthy Free’ in a simple, long-awaited announcement. John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. He was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and held hostage for more than five years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992. McCarthy was Britain's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, having spent over five years in captivity until his release on August 8, 1991. He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan, for several years.
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  • Released hostage Terry Waite waves as he steps out of an RAF aircraft, 5 years after being taken hostage by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 19th November 1991, in Lyneham, England. Terry Waite CBE born 1939 is an English humanitarian and author who was then Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Released Beirut hostage, journalist John McCarthy left is greeted by United Nations Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar centre and Douglas Hogg MP from the British Foreign Office right at RAF Lyneham after being held prisoner for 5 years by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 11th August 1991, in Lyneham, England. McCarthy was the United Kingdoms longest-held hostage in Lebanon where he was a prisoner from April 1986, famously forging a strong bond with Irish educator Brian Keenan.
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  • The former Beirut hostage, Terry Waite waves from a car, driven away after landing back at RAF Lyneham, UK. Looking exhausted, with red eyes, a drawn complexion and a grey/white beard, Waite is otherwise delighted to be back on home soil after years of captivity. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages including journalist John McCarthy and was himself held captive by Islamic factions for 1,763 days, the first four years of which were spent in total solitary confinement, between 1987 and 1991.
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  • Soon after his release, former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite meets the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Runcie on 19th November 1991 at RAF Lyneham, England. Terry Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s and held captive in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite speaks outside the Church of Englands Synod on 1st February 1992 in London, England. Terry Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s and held captive in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite speaks outside the Church of Englands Synod on 1st February 1992 in London, England. Terry Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s and held captive in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite speaks outside the Church of Englands Synod on 1st February 1992 in London, England. Terry Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s and held captive in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991.
    terry_waite05-01-02-1992.jpg
  • Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite speaks outside the Church of Englands Synod on 1st February 1992 in London, England. Terry Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s and held captive in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy and his former partner Jill Morrell sign copies of their book Some Other Rainbow in the summer of 1993, London England.
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  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world’s population. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world’s population. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis14-17-08-1997_1.jpg
  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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