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Joseph Cicippio  

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  • Joseph Cicippio was one of the last U.S. hostages to be released by the militant Islamic group that had taken him captive in Lebanon. When he was abducted in 1986, Cicippio was the acting comptroller of the American University in Beirut. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Cicippio, Joseph (1932–)]

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