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The Lebanon hostage crisis

Duration:
15 minutes
First broadcast:
Sunday 17 March 2013

In 1991 Giandomenico Picco, a United Nations envoy, went to Beirut to try to free Western hostages. To talk to the kidnappers face to face, he had to allow himself to be abducted. His negotiations led to the release of 11 people, including John McCarthy and Terry Waite.

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