Iran-Contra Hearings Day 18: Fawn Hall Testimony Part 4 (1987)

June 8, 1987 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DRMTZS?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full testimony: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/iran-contra-hearings-day-18-fawn-...

The Lebanon hostage crisis refers to the systematic kidnapping in Lebanon of 96 foreign hostages of 21 national origins - mostly American and western European - between 1982 and 1992. At least 8 hostages perished in captivity: some murdered, while others died from lack of adequate medical attention to illnesses. * TWA Flight 847. One of the most dramatic hostage-takings in Lebanon occurred on June 14, 1985, when TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked by "Organization for the Oppressed of the Earth." Passengers underwent a three-day, 8,300-mile (13,400 km) ordeal shuttling back and forth between Beirut and Algiers. Groups of passengers were freed over the course of event. One passenger, a U.S. Navy diver, Robert Dean Stethem, was beaten, shot and his body dumped on the runway. Another 39 passengers were held hostage in the South Beirut for two weeks, as Lebanese army troops withdrew from the Beirut airport on June 16 leaving Hezbollah and Amal militias to control the area and hold the hostages. On June 30, they were driven to Syria and released. The liberation of the hostages was followed over the next several weeks by the release of 735 Lebanese Shiite militants by Israel. Although this was one of the key demands of the hijackers, Israel maintaining the release was unconnected to the hijacking.

Mentions in popular culture * Hostages, a 1993 HBO film based on the event, starring Colin Firth as John McCarthy * An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan's memoir of his ordeal * Blind Flight, a 2003 UK film focusing on McCarthy and Keenan

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