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This Day In History. History Vault. Now the charity he co-founded, Hostage International, is calling on fundraisers to collectively cover 5, miles the distance from his Suffolk home to Beirut and back by walking, running, swimming or even rollerblading between 4 and 12 September.

But after arranging to meet the Islamic Jihad captors, he was kidnapped and held for 1, days much of it in solitary confinement, subjected to torture and even a mock execution.

This led him to co-found the charity Hostage International with Carlo Laurenzi , offering support to hostages and their families after release. Log In. Immediately after his release, Terry went to study at Cambridge which he says helped him steadily acclimatise to life back in the UK.

He also threw himself into charity work and, in honour of his father who find himself homeless during the s depression, he helps with the charity Emmaus. Realising there was little support for life after captivity, he also co-founded Hostage International , which give support to hostage families and returning hostages.

Terry Waite was one of foreign hostages kidnapped in Lebanon between and when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height. The hostages were mainly Americans and Western Europeans, including 12 Brits, and they were taken by various clans within the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organisation. At least eight hostages died in captivity, some were murdered while others died from a lack of adequate medical attention. In , Hezbollah took responsibility for two bomb attacks in Beirut that killed Americans and 58 Frenchmen.

The hostage taking is believed to have been a plan to discourage the West from taking action against the militant group. Terry Waite had gone to Beirut as a special envoy to attempt to negotiate the release of Western hostages when he was taken. The end of the crisis was precipitated by the need for Western aid for Syria and Iran following the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

When you're taken hostage, you have to manage a high degree of anxiety and uncertainty, Waite says. A few days before his captivity, Waite had visited Alcatraz with his wife and son, where they spent three minutes in the pitch-black 'punishment cell'. And then of course two weeks later I was in a dark cell for almost five years and somehow was able to cope with it…". When he was first captured he said to himself 'no self-pity' - and tried to keep in mind the many people who'd been in even worse situations.

You've only had a short time comparatively speaking [he told himself]. Terry Waite in Photo: Public domain. Although around the house we all "mess around in dressing gowns and what have you", it's essential to maintain your dignity even in isolation, Waite says.



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