American Hostage’s Daughter Appeals to Beirut Abductors
The 2-year-old daughter of American hostage Terry A. Anderson appeared on Lebanese television on her birthday Sunday and appealed to his kidnapers for the release of the father she has never seen.
“I love you, Daddy. Come to us, Daddy,” said curly-haired Sulome in a one-minute videotape, filmed in Cyprus where she lives with her mother, Madeleine.
“Our hearts are broken. Where is Daddy?” she asked after blowing out two candles on her birthday cake.
She waved a picture of her father, the longest-held foreign hostage in Lebanon, and kissed it.
Anderson, 39, a native of Lorain, Ohio, and chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, was kidnaped in Muslim West Beirut on March 16, 1985.
Sulome was born weeks after Anderson was kidnaped by members of Islamic Jihad, a group believed to be made up of Shia Muslim extremists loyal to Iran.
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