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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 wo...

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...

You've kind of lost everything. >> and you think it's the fact that they viewed you as americans, that's what made the difference? >> i think the idea of executing three american and a british journalist would have had implications and there was going to be, you know, repercussions of basically executing us there at a checkpoint, that we were somehow -- i try to say this without reading value into it, but that we were somehow worth something. >> and lindsay, you weren't spared any different treatment because you were a woman? >> i think i was spared -- i was punched in the face twice -- >> whi...

Without reading value into it, but we were somehow worth something. >> did -- they don't shoot you. you find yourself in a vehicle battling continues to go on. how violent were they with you? it seems like you met lots of different groups of soldiers and each time you met them early on, they wanted to exert dominance over you. >> that's right. i think it was always the first moments. i think we all experienced that. when i was getting loaded in, there was a head butt. >> they head butted you? >> in the very beginning. others of us were getting slaps and hits to the back of the head. this was a...

Have. journalists, that wasn't working. americans, that did seem to hit a chord. they were saying "get down" and we all went halfway. it's crazy, like compromising with nothing, no cards to play. you're trying to play them, get down, i'll go on my knees, just not all the way down because then you've lost everything. >> you think it's the fact they viewed you as americans? that's what made the difference? >> i think the idea of executing three americans and a british journalist was -- would have had implications and there was going to be repercussions of basically executing us there at a checkp...