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And it was very interesting because for years i had been covering war. i was in afghanistan and iraq, and i had worked extensively in darfur and congo. and national geographic came to me and said we want you to photograph bhutan. and their experiment with democracy. and it s a country that instead of gross national product, they have gross national happiness. and for me, it was sort of like how on earth do i photograph happiness? i ve been photographing war for so many years. and in fact, you were held for six days captive in libya, right, in 2011? i was. war is no stranger to you. no. i ve been in several dangerous situations. but to photograph in a place like bhutan where nothing was happening and happiness was something very new to me, it was a very challenging assignment. well, people can see the exhibit again through early march at the national geographic museum. lynsey, thank you so much for coming on the program. thank you so much for having me. and breaking ne ....
Americans, that did seem to hit a cord. anthony was saying other things. lynsey, i distinctly remember saying, i just don t want to be raped. i just don t want to be raped. and begging. i just kept saying please don t, please don t. we were all waiting to be shot. so i just said, please. they were forcing us on our they were saying get down. we all went halfway. it s crazy, you re compromising with nothing, no cards to play. you re trying to play them. get down, right, i ll go on my knees, just not all the way down, because then you ve lost everything. and you think it s the fact that they viewed you as americans, that s what made the difference? the idea of executing three americans and a british journalist would have had implications. there was going to be repercussions of executing us in at a checkpoint, that we were somehow, i try to say this without reading value into it, but we were somehow worth something. adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity. and making ....
For us. we hoped so, but you don t know anything. of course, we knew that the times and our families were working on this 24-7. but you still have that feeling of, we re in the middle of nowhere. how are they going to find us here? it s really, you just feel like you ve dropped the end of the earth. what do you think about to get you through? i think each person had their tyler was a great storyteller. lynsey has a great sense of humor. steve has a british education. i think over time the camaraderie started coming out. ....
Feeling. unfortunately i went through this before in 2009 when he was kidnapped by the taliban. i know in situations like this, i have to be strong. i have to be able to e-mails and phone calls and be in control of my feelings. when did you know something was wrong? i spoke to her that morning on that day. and she said she had a feeling that things were turning negative and that the government forces were quite near and she wanted to get out of there. and i didn t a friend of mine called me in the evening and said have you heard from lynsey or tyler and i got a suspicion that something was wrong. then we started talking to other friends and found out, and the new york times got in touch. then, of course, every minute of the day gets worse because you don t know anything. i was in deli on my own and i was wearing down the floor as i was walking around, you know, with two laptops on the reuters screen, the e-mails, and everything, and i didn t sleep for several days. ....
you know, why didn t i leave them, why did i stay ozlong as i did. you hope you re doing it it and the story will be told otherwise. as you can imagine, steven feral, tyler hicks, lynsey, and anthony had much more to say. they re the focus of a 360 hour coming up at 11:00 eastern. you ll hear how they were captured, what they endured, and why they were convinced they would die. they also talked with family members about what the six days were like for them. we re following other stories tonight. big news today in syria. the president has lifted the 48-year-old state of emergency and abolished a hated state security court. they ll also issue permits to allow for paefrl protest. ....