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in october of 2011, an american aide worker named jessica buchanan was in somalia teaching children how to avoid land mines when she and her colleague were kidnapped by somali pirates and held hostage for a grueling 93 days. her ransom was initially set at $45 million and as her captors starved her day in and day out, she had no idea that anyone was thinking about her or coming for her. after more than three months in the desert with negotiations failing and jessica's health declining, president obama gave the go ahead for u.s. forces to enter somalia and bring jessica's long nightmare to an end. she describes her ordeal in a new book called "impossible odds, the kidnapping of jessica buchanan and her dramatic rescue by s.e.a.l. team 6." i spoke with jessica and her husband eric. tell me what happened when you were kidnapped. you were driving down a road. how quickly did it all take place? >> i mean, it was just a split second. we were in our three vehicle caravan with spu, the security police unit, in front of us and behind us, and then the ex-pats

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