The World - News from Oct. 13, 1985
Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon released a blurred photograph of the body of a man they alleged was executed American hostage William Buckley and offered to exchange his body for 100 Palestinians jailed in Israel. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said, “We do not regard the alleged photograph as convincing evidence that Mr. Buckley is no longer alive.” The 57-year-old U.S. Embassy political officer was kidnaped in Beirut in March, 1984, and the pro-Iranian group claimed to have executed him on Oct. 5 in retaliation for the Israeli air attack on the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis on Oct. 1.
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