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| | Abduction of John McCarthy: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta |
 | | This report on the abduction of John McCarthy and the murder of three Britons in Lebanon appeared in The Times on April 18, 1986. |
 | | In retaliation, three Britons, who had earlier been taken hostage in Lebanon, Alec Collett, Leigh Douglas, and Philip Padfield, were murdered by their Hezbollah captors, and a fourth Briton, journalist John McCarthy, was taken hostage. |
 | | The abduction of John McCarthy was followed in 1987 by the capture of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite, who had gone to Lebanon to secure the release of the hostages. |
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