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8 March 1986

Following is a chronology of significant developments:

22 March 1985

Diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton are kidnaped in West Beirut. Danielle Perez, Carton's daughter and a secretary at the French Embassy, is also taken hostage, then released on 31 March. "Islamic Jihad” and the previously unkn (b)(3).haybar Brigades” claim credit.

An anonymous caller claiming to speak for “Islamic Jihad” threatens to kill one of the French diplomats unless Paris arranges the release of the two deported Iraqis. The caller also demands that Paris send Dr. Ra'd to negotiate with the kidnapers. Ra'd was involved in hostage

(b)(3) negotiations last summer.

23 May 1985

Journalist Jean PaUL Kauffmann and researcher Michel Seurat are kidnaped in West Beirut "Islamic Jihad” claims credit. (b)(3)

Four members of a French television crew-Phillippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Corenea, and JeanLouis Normandin-are kidnaped after covering a Hizballah rally in Beirut's southern suburbs. (b)(3)

9 March 1986

Early January 1986

French press reports indicate that Paris is close to a deal to secure the release of the hostages. French officials confirs ubstance of these reports.

An anonymous caller claims that “Islamic Jihad" was responsible for kidnaping the TV crew. (b)(3)

(b)(346

The French Ambassador to Iraq meets with the expelled Iraqis in Baghdad. Both are reported alive and in good health.

(b)(3)

10 January

French officials tell US diplomats 1986

that negotiations are at a stalemate. (b)(3)

9-13 March 1986

19 February 1986

A series of official and unofficial French mediators arrive in the Middle East to explore all possible avenues in the hostage crisis. Foreign Ministry officials travel to Beirut Damascus, and Tehran.[

(b)(3)

Paris expels four Iranians, four Iraqis, and three Lebanese. Two of the Iraqis-Hamza Hadi Fawzi and Hassan Khayr al-Din, members of an Iraqi opposition group are sent to Baghdad. Press reports claim that at least one is executed in Baghdad. Tehran, which supports Iraqi oppositionists, is said to be angered, further spring back negotiation efforts.

(b)(3)

10 March 1986

Unidentified couriers deliver a statement in the name of "Islamic Jihad” to a foreign news agency in Beirut, along with three photographs. The statement says they are intended to prove the execution of the “specialized intelligence expert” Michel Seurat. French officials have identified the man in the photos as Seurat.

(b)(1) (b)(3)

6 March 1986

An anonymous caller tells a foreign news agency in Beirut that “Islamic Jihad" has executed Michel Seurat as a spy. He also criticizes Paris for deporting "innocent Muslims," particularly its two “Iraqi brothers.” The caller warns that French policy in the Middle East is endangering its nationals and demands that French officials “move away from the destructive policy that they are pursuing, and abandon America and

its affairs."[(b)(3))

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