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Brian Keenan (writer/hostage)
Brian Keenan is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling , an account of the five years he spent as a hostage in the Lebanon. In 1986, while teaching at the American University of Beirut, Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. After spending several months in isolation, he was moved to a cell shared with the British journalist John McCarthy. Both were released from captivity in 1990.
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