1986-1991CRIME
Joe Cicippio was held hostage by the Islamic group Hezbollah in Lebanon for five years, 1986-1991 often chained to a radiator in a room with blacked-out windows, cut off entirely from the outside world.
William Richard Higgins was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was also captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. He was tortured to death. 1988
William Richard Higgins was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was also captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. He was tortured to death. 1988
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Black sedan drives toward camera. Z'in to window of back seat, a man smoking a cigarette is seen. Other similar sedans follow - a group of photographers taking pictures at the gated entrance as the sedans pass through.
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Shot through an iron gate, cars are seen parked in a large lot. Z'in and same sedans pull up , men get out of cars, one carries a large poster board or picture. Mysterious.
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| 01:01:21 81.42 |
Several officials, older gentlemen mostly, are seen walking or being dropped off by limos as they enter a large white dwelling with white columns, either a home or government building. Some wave to photogs.
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Senator Bob Dole walking to the building entrance with another unidentified man, and enters.
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Senator George Mitchell gets out of limo, waves to unseen media, and enters building.
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A horde of media with note pads and photographers, several mics set up outside same building as above.
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Cutaway to quick shot of two men standing in front of the several mics. One of them states "bring these people home" and film cuts off.
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| 01:05:06 305.96 |
Short film of the kidnapped man being held hostage, Joe Cicippio. He pleads into the camera and encourages the release of Sheik Abdel Karim Obeld otherwise he and others will be hung. And pleads for the Red Cross not to leave him. He also states that Americans are "always victims of Israel's politics, and President Bush has no helped to free us"
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Live footage with no audio of a man who has been hung. He wears a mask around his mouth a noose around his neck and spins slowly around hanging from the ceiling. His feet are seen tied together with a rope. Camera pans up and down head to toe of his slowly turning body. horrible.
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Grainy photo still of a man - maybe the person they hung.
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Blank and jumpy dark film.
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A car pulls up the driveway of a suburban home and into the garage. A man in military uniform carrying a brief case follows the car up the driveway and walks into the garage. He opens door of passenger side of car and a young man and two adults, man and woman, sounds of cameras flashing as they all walk into the home. a z'in on the four of them entering the home. The door with a quilted wreath closes behind them.
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Blank then jumpy film.
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Two military man inside having a discussion. Z'in on an American flag and a striped patch on their uniforms.
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Ext. white nondescript building with large UN letters, a blue flag, and communication towers on roof. Two military men on the roof with a telescope, wind is blowing and interfering with what they say. They look through binoculars and a telescope. Z'in to CU of one of the men looking through a large telescope.
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| 01:10:06 606.78 |
A UN vehicle pulls out of the UN compound. Pan out reveals the nondescript white UN building and compound surrounded by a barbed wire fence out in the desert.
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A government official (unknown) speaks from a podium to an audience. A large map of the world is behind him. He reports that a Marine - Lieutenant Colonel William R Higgins was reported missing in Tyron, Lebanon. He states there is not much evidence at this point whether he was abducted or what has happened. 1988.
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| 01:11:15 675.56 |
A foreign official (most likely Lebanese) reads from his notes about the disappearance of Higgins with more detail. He states Higgins was abducted from his vehicle ands states they are conducting a search for him with the help of the Lebanese Army and others.
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Newscaster reports Lt Col. Higgins abduction. He reports the kidnappers have found him guilty and plant to execute.
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Footage Col. Higgins before his capture. And after his capture, footage of United Nations' Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar accepting a Nobel Peace Prize in Higgins honor and asks for his immediate release. CU the Nobel Peace prize award.
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| 01:12:50 770.84 |
A handwritten letter with a photo of Higgins' wearing a gag across his mouth. Unseen reporter states the letter from the organization holding him sentences him to death as a spy of the Zionist enemy.
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| 01:13:06 786.44 |
A reporter interviews Mrs. Higgins in September 1988. Mrs. Higgins states they both knew the risks, but he was proud of his UN association and was willing to take the risks "for the cause of peace".
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Mrs. Higgins (boxed) above a New York Times article entitled My Husband -- Their Hostage. According to unseen reporter, Mrs. Higgins urged the UN and Congress to pressure Iran to force his release.
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Mrs. Higgins in military uniform, with service bars on her shirt, at a press conference stoically announces the certainty that her husband William Higgins is presumed dead at the hands of his captores.
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U.S. Senator Bob Dole speaks from a podium about the reported death of Lt. Col. William Higgins by hanging. He states that if the report is accurate there would be an aproppritate response. Additionally states this is another "indication of the fanaticism of the Hezbolah and others who may hold other Americans captive"... He states that Col. Higgins was not a spy but a member of a peacekeeping group.
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