Collett to Return Home after 27 years of Mystery over His Kidnapping
DNA test results showed that the body that was recently recovered by a British team in eastern Lebanon was that of U.K. journalist Alec Collett, As-Safir newspaper said Friday.
It said the team left Aita al-Fukhar on Thursday after having concluded their mission to find remains of Collett.
Collett was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1985 during the peak of the civil war and was reported to have been killed a year later.
Sixty-four years old at the time, he was on assignment in refugee camps for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) near Beirut airport when taken hostage.
Fatah-Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group better known as the Abu Nidal Organization, claimed responsibility for the abduction and killing
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