They first met in the boot of a car almost 30 years ago. Now Terry Waite and John McCarthy have been reunited on Lebanese soil, sharing a joke about the country’s improved hospitality.
On Thursday night, as guests of Lebanon’s ambassador to London, the two men warmly embraced.
Waite, who turns 80 later this month, was receiving an award for a lifetime devoted to charitable work. McCarthy, now aged 62, was there to support him.
McCarthy, a television journalist, had been kidnapped by jihadi terrorists in April 1986 and held in captivity until his release in August 1991.
Waite, the Church of England’s special envoy, had gone to Beirut in January 1987 to negotiate McCarthy’s release.
Instead he…
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