Dokument #1342740
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Mr. Dennis Hill, a British lecturer at the
American University in Beirut, was shot dead on 29 May 1985. [
Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Record of World Events,
Volume XXXII, January 1986, p. 34133.] The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for his death in a phone call to a Beirut news
agency. [ "Index Index", Index on Censorship, October 1985
(No. 5), p. 66.] A Lebanese female, Florence Raad, the Beirut
correspondent of a London-based Arab language daily, was kidnapped
in May 1985 by members of the Druze Progressive Socialist Party. [
Ibid.] No other females are mentioned in the two attached reports
discussing kidnapping in Beirut in May 1985.
Attachments:
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Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Record
of World Events, Volume XXXII, January 1986, p. 34133.
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"Index Index", Index on Censorship,
October 1985 (No. 5), p. 66.