Journalist Terry Anderson, while writing an account of his 6 1/2 years as a hostage in Lebanon, has been trying to dig up information on nine men who held him captive. But when he filed a Freedom of Information Act request, the Justice Department turned it down, explaining that it would violate the kidnappers' right to privacy. The department informed Anderson that it would need either notarized privacy waivers from each of the captors, or proof of their deaths.

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