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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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  • 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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  • 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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