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Article: U.N., Amal Forces Fail to Find Kidnaped U.S. Marine Officer;Authorities Doubt Responsibility Claim
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- The Washington Post
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- February 19, 1988
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Around-the-clock searches by U.N. peace-keeping troops and Shiite
Moslem militiamen in the muddy countryside of southern Lebanon turned
up no sign today of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the head
of a U.N. observer group who was kidnaped by gunmen near here
yesterday.
An anonymous caller in Beirut claimed responsibility for the
kidnaping on behalf of a previously unknown group called the Islamic
Revolutionary Brigades, but authorities were unsure of its
authenticity and most suspicions pointed toward one of the area's
many militant, pro-Iranian factions.
The caller, in a telephone conversation with an international
news agency in Beirut, accused Higgins of being "one of the ...