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May 13, 2005


1989: Cartoonist-Related Kidnapping

imageThe BBC today selected as one of its looks back into the past the 1989 kidnapping in Lebanon of a British war hero. Jackie Mann wouldn't be released more than two years later. What's interesting from a comics standpoint is that his abductors originally demanded the release of those held in suspicion of the murder of cartoonist Naji al-Ali, who was murdered, some say assassinated, in London in 1987. British authorities claimed to be holding no one.

An al-Ali cartoon.
 
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