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...Lebanon, gunmen dumped the corpses of three Western hostages on a road in the Chouf Mountains east of Beirut. The victims were identified as American University Librarian Peter Kilburn, 60, who had disappeared in Beirut in December 1984; and Leigh Douglas, 34, and Philip Padfield, 40, two British teachers who had been abducted three weeks before their murder. The men were among 18 British, French, U.S. and other hostages being held in Lebanon. A stenciled statement found near the bloodstained bodies said they had been killed in retaliation for the U.S. air strike against Libya. The statement was signed...
...were identified earlier as missing British hostages, Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield...
...London, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said without elaboration, "For some time, we have had firm evidence of direct Libyan involvement in the kidnapping of Mr. Douglas and Mr. Padfield, and we have good reason to believe they were in Libyan hands...
...bodies of three kidnap victims--identified as writer Alec Collett, 64, and teachers Leigh Douglas, 34, and Philip Padfield, 40, all Britons--were dumped on a highway, each shot once in the head...
...note found nearby claimed they were U.S. and British spies and had been "executed" by "Arab commando cells" in reprisal for the attack on Libya. Collett was kidnapped 13 months ago and Douglas and Padfield last month...