Ex-Hostage Coleridge Flies Back to Britain
United Press International
LONDON —
British relief agency worker Peter Coleridge, freed after six days’ captivity in Lebanon, arrived home Thursday to a family reunion.
A Middle East Airlines jetliner returned Coleridge to Britain after he was delivered to Beirut’s International Airport in a luxury car provided by Mustafa Saad, a Sunni Muslim militia leader who played a role in securing his release.
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