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Jackie Mann: what Wikipedia removed

Jackie Mann was a British Battle of Britain fighter pilot kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon for more than two years. Through 2010 the opening described his captors as “Islamic Jihadist terrorists.” Today the opening calls them only “Islamists,” with terror surviving once in the body but gone from the opening. A reader arriving now learns his captors were Islamists and not that Wikipedia once called them terrorists.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word2010201520206 October 20232025
terror10000
islamist01111
jihad10000
hostage11111

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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The changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 324477310):

Jackie Mann (1914-1995) was a British former RAF fighter pilot who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihadist terrorists in Lebanon in May 1989, and held hostage for more than two years.

2025 (revision 1292456136):

English kidnapping victim (1914-1995) Jackie Mann , CBE , DFM (11 June 1914 – 12 November 1995) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain , who in later life was kidnapped by Islamists in Lebanon in May 1989 and held hostage for more than two years.

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