LEBANON: BODY DELIVERED TO BEIRUT POLICE IS THOUGHT TO BE THAT OF SLAIN U.S. HOSTAGE WILLIAM HIGGINS

Record ID: 574528

  • Title: LEBANON: BODY DELIVERED TO BEIRUT POLICE IS THOUGHT TO BE THAT OF SLAIN U.S. HOSTAGE WILLIAM HIGGINS
  • Date: 23rd December 1991
  • Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (DECEMBER 23, 1991) (VISNEWS - MAHFOUZ) GV PAN/SVS EXTERIORS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS) (3 SHOTS) GV PAN/GV SYRIAN ROAD CHECK (2 SHOTS) GV TRUCK DRIVING ALONG ROAD GV PAN STREET WHERE BODY WAS LEFT TRANSCRIPT OF SEQUENCE 4, HIGGINS: "I REPEAT IN ORDER TO GET ME RELEASED THESE DEMAND HAVE TO BE MET. ONE - THE WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI FORCES FROM ALL OCCUPIED TERRITORIES IN LEBANON."
  • Embargoed: 7th January 1992 12:00
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  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATION, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflict,General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3XD577ZSWL123R0ROHFIFVYLS
  • Story Text: Lebanese police collected a body from a Britain street on Monday (December 23) and it was later confirmed to be that of slain United States (U.S.) hostage William Higgins.

    Police received a telephone call asking them to collect the body. It was then taken to the American University Hospital for tests to ascertain its identity.

    Higgins, a Marine lieutenant-colonel, was abducted in south Lebanon in February 1988 while serving as a United Nations (U.S.) observer.

    His pro-Iranian abductors claimed in July 1989 to have killed him in retaliation for Israeli's abduction of a Shiite Muslim cleric, Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid.
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