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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 ...

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 ...