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Pro-Iranian kidnappers accused the United States Friday of delaying the release of American hostages in Lebanon by reneging on its "pledges and promises." The charge came in a statement signed by Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, and delivered to a Western news agency. The typewritten statement in Arabic was accompanied by an photograph of U.S. journalist Terry A. Anderson, the longest-held among the 14 foreign hostages in Lebanon.