Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan: The Beirut Hostage Crisis

Between 1982 and 1992, roughly a hundred foreign nationals were seized off the streets of Beirut and held hostage by Shi'ite militant factions during Lebanon's civil war, mostly journalists, academics, diplomats and aid workers taken simply because of the passports they carried. At least ten of them died in captivity. Three of the best known were British and Irish: John McCarthy, a young television journalist; Brian Keenan, a teacher from Belfast; and Terry Waite, the Archbishop of...