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American Kidnapped in Beirut by Gunmen
David Jacobsen, 54, American University Hospital's director, was abducted at gunpoint while walking from the AUB campus to the hospital in west Beirut. He is the sixth American kidnapped in Beirut since March 1984, with Islamic Jihad linked to prior abductions.
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Beirut
Lebanon
American University Hospital
David Jacobsen
Huntington Beach
Calif
Islamic Jihad
Iran
Jacobsen
American University of Beirut
Da.m
Washington
U.S. State Department
The
University Hospital
Saudi Arabia
United States
William Buckley
U.S
Benjamin Weir
Peter Kilburn
Lawrence
Jenco
Terry A. Anderson
Associated Press
Middle East
Marcel Fontaine
Marcel Carton
Michel Seurat
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Anderson
Buckley
Weir
Fontaine
Carton
Kuwait
Gulf
Kilburn