Remains of British Beirut Hostage Found

I can vaguely remember hearing about Alec Collett, one of the first British hostages to be abducted in Beirut. He was held for about a year before he died/was killed. Following the American bombing of Tripoli in April 1986, his captors released a grainy video, supposedly Collett, being hanged in retaliation. His body was not released and it was never found until a few days ago.

This may not seem much, but to his family and friends it means a great deal for more than one reason. For some years afterwards some of them refused to accept that he was dead and worked hard to try and find his whereabouts. As awful as this is, at least there is closure, not just to those close to Alec Collett, but that it helps bring to an end the awful saga of the Beirut Hostage Crisis which struck the Middle East in the 1980s.