Word: jihad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arab diplomats, meanwhile, told The Associated Press that Jacobsen's release was connected to an internal power struggle in Iran. The 55-year-old American was freed Sunday after being held for 17 months by Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group...
...newspaper quoted U.S. and Arab sources in Paris as saying no more American hostages were expected to be freed before the Reagan administration meets demands presented by Islamic Jihad...
...Islamic Jihad, the extremist group that held Jacobsen, still holds two Americans, journalist Terry A. Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland. It said last year it killed U.S. diplomat William Buckley, 57, but no body was found. Lebanese Shiite and Western intelligence sources have said Buckley may have died earlier...
...Islamic Jihad said in a statement issued after Jacobsen's release: "We hold the American government fully responsible for the consequences of any failure to take advantage of this opportunity and proceed with current approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages...
Jacobsen was director of the American University Hospital in west Beirut when he was kidnapped off the street by six men on May 28, 1985. In recent months, Islamic Jihad released several videotapes in which he appealed to the U.S. government to work for the hostages' release...