By
Rima S. Aboulmona
BEIRUT:
The body found by Lebanese search teams in Mount Lebanon Tuesday was confirmed to
be of missing American John Redwine, security sources told The Daily Star.
“Unfortunately,
our security people confirmed that they found a body who they believe is that
of John Redwine,” Bahaa al-Koussy, director of the U.N. Information Center in
Beirut, told The Daily Star.
Lebanese
security teams searching for Redwine, who went missing over the weekend, said
the man they had found appeared to have fallen to his death, according to the
security sources.
Shortly
before the discovery of the body around midday Tuesday, Redwine’s Silver
Volkswagen was found nearby to the popular mountains.
Redwine's
wife, Irina, sounded distraught when contacted by The Daily Star on her
husband’s disappearance and said she did not wish to talk to the media.
Some
100 personnel from both the Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces took
part in the search operation. Search squads, in coordination with a U.S.
Embassy team, scoured the mountainous area on both land and air for Redwine.
Two helicopters and search dogs were recruited as part of the hunt.
According
to the security sources, Mrs. Redwine arrived in Lebanon from Morocco Monday
after she lost contact with her husband on Dec. 17. The wife contacted the U.S.
Embassy about the case after she arrived in the country, the sources added.
Koussy said Redwine, 33,
worked for the Beirut office of BGR, a German federal institute for geosciences
and natural resources that has been cooperating with the U.N. Economic and
Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) since 1992.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Dec-20/157421-us-citizen-missing-in-lebanon-sources.ashx#axzz1h5CCTTLC
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