US journalist Terry Anderson, held in Lebanon hostage crisis for nearly 7 years, dead at 76 | CNN

Terry Anderson, who was the longest held American hostage in Lebanon, grins with his 6-year-old daughter Sulome, on Dec. 4, 1991, as they leave the US Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, following Anderson's release. CNN — Terry Anderson, the former Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press who was kidnapped in 1985 and held captive for nearly seven years in Lebanon, has died at 76, his daughter told CNN. Anderson died on Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, according to his daughter, Sulome Anderson. “Though my father’s life was marked by extreme suffering during his time as a hostage in captivity, he found a quiet, comfortable peace in recent years,” she said in a statement to CNN. The cause of death was unknown, though his daughter told the AP he had recently had heart surgery. The AP journalist worked out of Kentucky, Tokyo, South Africa and ultimately Lebanon, after he volunteered to go there in 1982 following Israel’s invasion as the news agency’s chief Mid...