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.
say this is what is happening. these rebels are these people, these gadhafi forces are doing this. and this at a time when as lynsey says, it s gone geopolitical. this is a time when governments are about to commit lives and hundreds of millions of dollars into a conflict. and we re trying to say, if that s the resources you re going to be putting into this conflict, if you re going to choose to interfere in this, this is the situation on the ground. and it is the same you risk you take that gets that journalistic information that puts people in mortal peril. it is the same risk. if it works for you, it comes off. if it doesn t work for you, you get the blame. that s the way the job is. is it hard being back? i know obviously you want to come home after a situation like this. that s completely normal and understandable. it s got to be strange to still see this stuff going on. is it i always find it hard going from one world to another. all of a sudden you re on a