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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-07:38:00

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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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-07:42:00

really unknown to you, spurred the u.s. into actually pulling the trigger, literally. >> exactly. >> did you think this was something that u.s. officials were aware of, that president obama was aware of? >> no. i mean, it's so humbling now on the other side of it to see what, you know, what the government will do for their citizens. i mean, i had no idea, no idea that anybody knew i was out there. >> because that's got to add to this feeling of complete misery, to feel -- it's one thing to feel like the world is paying attention and people know about it, but to feel like no one's paying attention. >> no, absolutely. i mean, that's why i feel like the title of the book "impossible odds" is so perfect because i felt like i was in the most impossible situation i could ever face, because the only way out, i saw, was paying ransom and $45 million was never going to happen, even it went down to 18 but millions of

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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-04:42:00

>> did you think this was something that u.s. officials were aware of, that president obama was aware of? >> no. i mean, it's so humbling now on the other side of it to see what, you know, what the government will do for their citizens. i mean, i had no idea, no idea that anybody knew i was out there. >> because that's got to add to this feeling of complete misery, to feel -- it's one thing to feel like the world is paying attention and people know about it, but to feel like no one's paying attention. >> no, absolutely. i mean, that's why i feel like the title of the book "impossible odds" is so perfect because i felt like i was in the most impossible situation i could ever face, because the only way out, i saw, was paying ransom and $45 million was never going to happen, even it went down to 18 but millions of dollars, it wasn't going to happen. i didn't know how we were actually going to get out. >> in the phone call you made,

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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-04:38:00

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 were in the middle. we were in our way back across the green line to the north office, where it was a bit safer.

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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-00:43:00

the title of the book "impossible odds" is so perfect because i felt like i was in the most impossible situation i could ever face, because the only way out, i saw, was paying ransom and $45 million was never going to happen, even it went down to 18 but millions of dollars, it wasn't going to happen. i didn't know how we were actually going to get out. >> in the phone call you made, you really had reached a point physically where you had serious medical problems, you were feeling you weren't going to make it. >> yeah. yeah. i had developed a terrible urinary tract infection because of the unsanitary conditions and i knew it was heading into a kidney infection. and they were withholding any kind of antibiotics or medication from me as a form of punishment because the negotiations weren't going well, and i knew that if i didn't get to help soon, some medication or something, i wasn't going to make it. so that's what i told them on my last proof of life call that, i was afraid i was going to die

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Anderson Cooper 360-20130518-00:38:00

tonight, incredible story of rescue and survival. 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.

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