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...meantime, the impact of the region's fierce factionalism was once again being felt in unstable Lebanon. On Christmas Day a Libyan diplomat based in neighboring Syria, Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, was killed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when gunmen raked his car with machine-gun fire. The Bekaa is a ! stronghold of Lebanese Shi'ites who still blame Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the 1978 disappearance and possible murder of their spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr. The assumption in Beirut was that the diplomat's killing was the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese...
...Lebanese Christian radio station said two French hostages were turned over to the Syrian military intelligence chief in Lebanon, Col. Ghazi Kenaan, at the Bekaa Valley town of Anjar in preparation for their release along with the six Americans...
...July 24, 1982, hit by a Syrian SAM-8 ground-to-air missile during an Israeli attack on Syrian batteries in the Bekaa Valley. The two Israeli pilots were captured...
...Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle was provided. Apparently fearing a rescue mission by the Syrians if not the Americans, the captors moved Jenco to seven different locations, probably either in the slums of southern Beirut or in the Bekaa Valley. As a further precaution, the jailers never permitted the priest to see their faces...
...last day of his captivity, Jenco found himself being driven through the Bekaa Valley. Bleary-eyed from a sleepless night, he was suddenly abandoned by his captors, who told him, "Start walking," then disappeared. His first uncertain steps seemed "like an eternity," he said later, until he made contact with Lebanese police and was whisked across the border to the protection of Syrian authorities and U.S. embassy officials in Damascus. It was there that he met Anderson's sister, Peggy Say, of Batavia, N.Y., who had gone to the Middle East to see if she could do anything to help...