Posted on 08/20/2013 10:20:51 AM PDT by george76
Amanda Lindhout traveled to Somalia hoping to find a story that would launch her career as a television reporter. Four days after arriving in the country with a photographer friend, both were taken hostage by Islamist insurgents. While in captivity, she was “starved, beaten and sexually brutalized” according to her memoir of the 2008 saga set to be released next month...
Lindhout spent fifteen months “of harrowing captivity” after being pulled from the car in which she was traveling by a group of masked men.
During her 460-day ordeal, the aspiring reporter converted to Islam in order not to be killed, received “wife lessons” from one of her captors, and made a daring escape attempt with her fellow hostage... with an ex-boyfriend with whom she had worked in the past, Australian photographer Nigel Brennan.
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Her captors whom she has described as teenagers placed a sheet over her head in a prayer room, stripped her naked and took turns sexually violating her.
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The physical toll was heavy: broken teeth, aching ribs from being kicked, skin fungus on her face, hair failing out in clumps due to malnutrition.
While at first it appeared the Canadian and Australian governments considered giving into the kidnappers’ demands for a ransom, Lindhout and Brennan’s families eventually gave up on a government solution, hired a private hostage negotiator and paid $600,000 for their release, less than the $3 million ransom initially demanded. The $2,000 per day hostage negotiator’s fee brought the final bill to $1.2 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Under the bus she goes. “The wheels on the bus go round and round...”
How stupid of us to import Somalis into the US.
That’s my opinion also. Nobody deserves to be raped, but what did they expect?
Noooow she has sumpin to write about.
Good looking dumb woman..........
Really...if one pokes a hornet’s nest, is the result at all surprising?
Not even considering a rescue?
Or even sending in guys to kill the perps after the fact?
Anyone having to deal with religion of pieces should be told the story of the scorpion and the fox....
You cannot fix that kind of stupid.
Another liberal foundation that will do nothing for the target oppressed and enrich the founder and her friends.
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so she had to denounce her Christian faith? I don't think I'd do it.
Question: do adult women converts get to have female circumcision? Or is that saved for just the precious little girls?
Sounds like she got the bonus plan, too.
Next, maybe she can go to Tahir Square and get in the middle of an angry mob.
It was not smart but the error is more on the politically correct teachers/idiots who taught her. She acted on what she learned. She did not learn the dangers of Islam.
Having learned about those dangers I am glad she is sharing what happened to her. Her parents, no doubt, lost a lot of money securing her release. She needs to earn what she can with this book. She needs to warn other women and girls.
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