On this day in 1991, Church envoy Terry Waite has been freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987. Mr Waite, the envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, successfully negotiated the release of several Westerners held in Beirut before he was also taken captive. He was released with an American academic, Thomas Sutherland who was seized in 1985.

Their captors, Islamic Jihad, broke the news in a brief note to an international news agency in the Lebanese capital. Terry Waite was the last British captive in Lebanon following the release of journalist John McCarthy in August and 77-year-old Jackie Mann in September. At a press conference in Damascus, Syria, he told reporters the kidnappers had promised other Western hostages would be released soon.

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UNITED NATIONS - Syria opposes the U.N. request to question six of its officials in Beirut about the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister because their presence could cause friction between the two countries, Syria's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday.  Fayssal Mekdad, the ambassador, said Syria has offered chief investigator Detlev Mehlis the chance to interview the Syrians at offices in Cairo, the Golan Height, Vienna or Geneva."We hope that Mr. Mehlis does not rule out all these possibilities, because at the end of it what's requested is the substance