Former Lebanon Hostage Terry Waite Visits British Iraq Hostage Family

LONDON, Sept 25 (AFP) - Terry Waite, a former envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury held in Lebanon for nearly five years, on Saturday visited the family of British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held by militants in Iraq.
The visit was a private one according to the Press Association news agency, which reported seeing Waite arriving at the family home in the northern English city of Liverpool.
He was met by two of Bigley's brothers, Phillip and Stanley, who have been leading a vigorous campaign to try to get the British hostage released.
Waite was abducted in 1987 in the Lebanese capital by the Islamic Jihad group, a pro-Iranian organisation, as he was attempting to negotiate the release of several Western hostages on behalf of the head of the Anglican church, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Accused of being a spy, he spent 1,760 days locked up in a cell before he was finally freed in 1991.
Bigley, a 62-year-old British engineer, was abducted on September 16 from his home in Baghdad along with two US colleagues. The Americans have since been murdered by their captors.