University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 8, 1990
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Captors don't intend to free U.S. hostages, despite pleas
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A pro-Iranian underground group holding two
Lebanon said yesterday that it did not intend to capture the captive.
The group also accused the United States of planning a mil-
Rafsaniani
ary operation to free the 18 Western captives
The Revolutionary Justice Organization issued the statement just hours after Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanji said he wanted the issue of Westerners held in Lebanon resolved. That followed a flurry of reports that had raised hopes that some hostages might be released.
"We tenaciously cling to keeping America's nose in the mud, under our feet," said the statement, delivered to the independent Beirut newspaper An-Nahar and a Western news agency. "There is no intention to
release hostages. '
The handwritten statement was accompanied by a black-and-white photograph of hostage Joseph Cicppio of Valley Forge, Pa. Cicppio, acting comproller of the American military, kidnapped Sept. 12, 1986 in Lebanon.
The statement was the first from the group since Aug. 3, 1989, when the group announced it had reversed a decision to kill Clicipio. 59.
"By monitoring American moves here and there and through planting elements in regional American stations, and after trailing some spies, we have acquired accurate information that an American military operative is working with the Americans where the Americans believe hostages are held," the statement said.
"We call upon all to watch out against this threat and beware and on the alert against what America is hatching."
Feb. 23, the clergyman, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadallah, said that a realistic and humanitarian means must be.
Fadlallah's statement was one of
several recent developments that had
made the solution to a that solution may
have in the works.
Editorialists in English-language Iranian newspapers have said the hostages should be freed because they were being used as anti-Islamic propaganda or anti-Semitism officials also have expressed optimism that the cantives could be freed.
Rafsanjani, in his most direct statement so far that he wants the hostages freed, said yesterday that he wanted the issue settled since the United States and others were not involved in a major branding the Lebanese as terrorists and are not seriously seeking a solution.
Rafanjiani said Iran was not directly linked to the hostage issue, but that he had pledged to use Iran's influence to seek their freedom.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said administration officials were encouraged by Rafsanjani's comments.
"They certainly are more hopeful that what we've heard in the more distant past," Fitzwater said.
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