Talk:Lebanon hostage crisis

Adding Dennis Hill
There is a missing victim on this page, his name was Dennis Hill from Middlesex.

Dennis Hill was 53 and had worked for the American University of Beirut on the Intensive Engliash Language Program since October 1984. Dennis Hill was an MI6 agent:

Http/www.cryptome.org/Richard Tomlinson:

http://richardtomlinson.wordpress.com/

http://www.inside-news.ch/Tomlinson/List/Liste_Alpha.htm

Hill was shot several times in the head on May 30th 1985. According to AP via the Gainesville Sun on May 30th 1985, Islamic Jihad claimed responsibilty:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4YxaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=808DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6825,6118411&dq=dennis+hill+cia+beirut&hl=en

However, according to another news report in the Press-Courier on June 3rd 1985, Islamic Jihad denied responsibility and claimed he was assasinated by the CIA:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iUteAAAAIBAJ&sjid=42ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=6861,372956&dq=dennis+hill+cia+beirut&hl=en — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.183.185.239 (talk) 17:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * a bullet point on Hill has been added but this has been deleted

"Hill was allegedly an MI6 agent, investigating the kidnapping of the CIA Station Head, William Buckley, amongst other duties."


 * The sources are homemade blogs and not WP:RS


 * Also, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4YxaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=808DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6825,6118411&dq=dennis+hill+cia+beirut&hl=en
 * says nothing about Islamic Jihad claiming responsibility. --BoogaLouie (talk) 17:01, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

John McCarthy
I would've thought John McCarthy was one of the more notable hostages during the period? Any reason he's not in the main list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gavinio (talk • contribs) 05:12, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

1992 Film Hostages
I deleted the link in the "Popular Culture" section relating to the 1992 film Hostages as it linked to an article for an unrelated 1943 World War II film. It's a shame because the 1992 film was a real masterpiece. Beetfarm Louie (talk) 23:10, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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What about the Lebanese themselves?
What does it say about us, all of us, that I don't see a single reference in this article to the estimated 17,000 Lebanese hostages? Many of them were not released until long after the war ended, and many remain unaccounted for (presumably by this point they never will be). The title doesn't say "Lebanon foreign hostage crisis". I think it shames humanity that this article was written by (I assume) several people, and no-one ever thought about those people. Here are a couple of links to redress the balance. https://www.mei.edu/publications/finding-lebanon-hope-dignity-and-right-know https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091312/ Eastofeast (talk) 18:53, 31 March 2024 (UTC)