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Ex-Hostage Walks Off-Stage at Ohio Debate

MARIETTA, Ohio - Former Mideast hostage Terry Anderson walked out of a debate in his state Senate campaign, angrily accusing his opponent of trying to portray him as soft on terrorism.

Anderson, a Democrat, objected to a brochure from Republican Sen. Joy Padgett that includes a photo of Anderson with an official of Hezbollah, the radical group that held him captive for 6 1/2 years. The brochure says that Anderson suggested shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks that "America's enemies have reason to hate us."

Anderson was chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press when he was kidnapped in Lebanon by Iranian-sponsored terrorists in 1985. He was freed in 1991.

At Wednesday's debate, Anderson declined to answer the first question, instead making a statement of protest and then walking out.

"The man in this picture that they use to imply that I am soft on terrorists is the secretary general of Hezbollah, the Party of God," Anderson said. "He and his brothers were the ones who kidnapped me, chained me, blindfolded me and beat me. ... And my political opponent uses a picture of that interview to try to win an election."
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Also see the LBN thread by CottonBear
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x922164#922176

Kerry's gotta support him. What a photo-op!

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