From the right: 11 Years for Longest-Held US Hostage
Bridget Johnson at PJ Media notes that last week marked 11 years since the longest-held hostage in US history — former FBI agent Bob Levinson, a 69-yearold father of seven — disappeared off the coast of Iran. Levinson “was working as a private detective on a cigarette smuggling case on Kish Island, an Iranian resort port in the Persian Gulf.” The family received a hostage video of him in 2010. Yet “when five US hostages were returned from Iran at the time of the implementation of the nuclear deal in January 2016, Bob Levinson was not among them.” He now has “five grandchildren he’s never met, including a toddler named Bobby who has battled stage 2 lymphoma.” But as his family notes, Levinson “is still not home despite years of promises by the government of Iran and by three US administrations.”