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McCarthy also said mildly that his first two years as a prisoner were "very difficult." In fact, the years after he was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 were hellish. Brian Keenan, an Irish teacher released last year who spent part of his captivity with McCarthy, described life with Islamic Jihad: "Tiny, tiny cells, constant blindfolds, prolonged days in the dark, sometimes weeks without light." The guards, he said, "just could not control the urge to beat very badly." When he and McCarthy were moved from one vermin-infested flat to another, they were covered with tape and stuffed under...
Later, when several men shared a room and were allowed to remove their blindfolds, Anderson carried out a compulsive daily routine of cleaning, pacing the room, talking aloud. Keenan says, "Terry's a bit of a bulky and belligerent man" with "a voracious hunger for intellectual conversation." Anderson went on a hunger strike at least once. Keenan says Anderson took his ailments stoically, "for in truth all pain and illness were generally dismissed by our keepers, though they would eventually supply us with some form of antibiotics...
...Keenan raised new hopes after his release a year ago. He said he was convinced Waite was still alive and was being held in isolation in Beirut. He told a television interviewer that his guards had called the man in the cell next to his "Terry," and he knew it wasn't Anderson...
Maier joined Goelet Professor of French History Patrice L. Higonnet and History Department Chair Edward L. Keenan '57 in criticizing the prelimary proposals...
...Keenan mentions that he does not recall Kerrigan taking part in any unusual political activity in her high school years. And in fact, in an interview, Kerrigan did not suggest in any way that politics was a large part of her life during that time...