Table 1 (Continued)
Status
Name/Occupation
Claimant Group
Date/Place
German Hostages
17 January 1987
No claimant
Held by Hizballah
Rudolf Cordes Businessmen
20 January 1987
No claimant
Held by Hizballah
Alfred Schmidt Engineer British Hostages Alec Collett Journalist
25 March 1985
Execution announced April 1986 by Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims (Abu Nidal); body never found.
17 April 1986
No claimant
Unknown
John McCarthy Journalist
20 January 1987
No claimant
Disappeared from Beirut during his effort to mediate hostage crisis
Terry Waite Anglican Church envoy Other Hostages Brian Keenan Irish tcacher
11 April 1985
No claimant
Unknown
No claimant
Unknown
Alberto Molinari Italian businessman
11 September 1985 West Beirut
31 January 1986
Fighting Revolutionary Cells
Unknown
Unknown
No claimant
Chae Do-sung South Korean diplomat Bakr Damanhuri Saudi diplomat/businessman Khalid Dib Saudi businessman
12 January 1987
26 January 1987
Partisans of Islamic Jihad
Probable reason for abduction was to dissuade Saudis from attending Islamic Conference summit in Kuwait
26 January 1987
No claimant
Taken from store
Two English-speakers, possibly Romanian
Two Lcba ncse Armenians
23 January 1987
No claimant
Probably mistaken for West Germans
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