Doctors, nurses, a team from Washington and an army of journalists waited Friday at a U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, for an event that was anything but certain - the release of an American hostage from Lebanon.
A teeming temporary settlement of trailers and vans manned by TV crews has suddenly sprung up down the street from the Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt.In the past, the freed Americans have stayed in Wiesbaden for several days and been debriefed there by a U.S. State Department team about their captivity.
The Wiesbaden hospital also has been a place where former captives could reunite with loved ones and begin catching up on lost years and rebuilding their lives together.