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Waite said on previous trips to Beirut in November and December last year that he was there at the request of Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group that holds at least three Americans and the two Frenchmen.
The deal promptly increased pressure on the Administration to negotiate freedom for the kidnaped Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. Two of the hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen, made a videotape that was delivered to news offices in Beirut by Islamic Jihad, the extremist group holding them, and played...
Terry A. Anderson and David Jacobsen made their appeal in a 10-minute tape delivered to the Beirut offices of two Western news agencies by Islamic Jihad, the organization holding them. They also said hostage William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat kidnapped in March 1984, had been killed in captivity.
Anderson referred by name to Islamic Jihad's third American hostage, Thomas Sutherland, 55, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut. Why Sutherland did not appear on the tape was not explained.
There was no way of knowing whether the captives made the pleas freely or were forced to do so by Islamic Jihad. The organization's name means Islamic Holy War and it is believed loyal to Iran.