Marine’s 3 Abductors Captured

BEIRUT — The nation’s mainstream Shia Muslim militia captured the three gunmen who kidnaped a U.S. Marine officer in southern Lebanon last week, security sources said today.

The sources said that the three gunmen are among dozens of suspects the Amal militia rounded up while searching for Lt. Col. William R. Higgins but that the man who masterminded the U.N observer’s abduction remained at large. The gunmen could not give their leader’s whereabouts or say where Higgins is being held, the sources said.