Relatives of Slain Beirut Hostage Urge World Day of Prayer
Members of the family of American hostage Peter Kilburn, who was killed in retaliation for last week’s U.S. raid on Libya, gathered here Sunday to urge the world to join them in a day of prayer Friday.
They also condemned the American attack and said it will escalate violence.
The body of Kilburn, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who disappeared in 1984, was discovered Thursday with those of two Britons in Lebanon’s central mountains.
Kilburn’s sister-in-law, Jeanne Repetto, 56, of San Jose, compared the air raid to throwing a bomb out a window to kill a pest.
“We’ve blown out the window, breaking whatever protection we had, and now we have found that, instead, we hit a hornet’s nest,” she said.
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