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That was very comforting. one of the things that he told me that what kept him going is me and our 3-month-old daughter. it was very beautiful. it was really it took the stress away. my most emotional is when i spoke first to lynsey, which is a day and a half after her. that s when you realize how traumatic it is, as well. like you stay strong and when you hear the voice, it s really comforting. but you also it s like, so you get relieved but at the same time you also feel, wow, this is like, you know, we can t have this a lot of times. would you want him to go back to libya ever? i think it s a no, i don t think i want him to go back the. but i do want him to continue doing journalism that he does best. i met him when we were both ....
And then the soldier pulled me away from him and kept his arms around me. so it was as if he was sort of ashamed of the treatment that the guy, you know, that the guy was touching me and making me so up comfortable. tyler, one guy they called the sheikh threatened you with beheading. what did you say? he put his hand in my hair. he couldn t see my face, because i had this blindfold on. he said, i like your head. you have a very nice head or something like that. he said, i m going to cut it off, i m going to take it off of your body and i m going to remove your head from your body, he kept saying that. i think just from the whole all the stress and exhaustion of this, i really felt at that time very hot, very i actually kind of dizzy. and at that point, the whole thing just felt very surreal to me and quite terrifying. lynsey, another guy, i was really struck by this in the article that you wrote. ....
Too. sometimes you don t want to talk to anybody. you just want to wait it out, in a way. and you want friends, but at the same time i think the worst was the first three days, because it was very odd that four western journalists disappeared completely out of thin air. very experienced western journalists who have been in the hottest places there are. i had a positive feeling they were okay, but you always have this thing, well, what if a bomb dropped on their car? but then you would still think that they would be at one point recognized somehow. like you were saying, lynsey had a mobile phone and it kept ringing. and this is kind of i mean, i stopped at one point. it was ringing and somebody hung up. they didn t pick up, they just ignored the call. then i had to kind of stop calling because it drove me nuts. i was thinking the same, calling them all the time. and at some point, i thought ....
Covering the israeli-lebanon war in 2006. i knew what kind of job he had and the passion he has for this job and telling the world what is going on in the middle east. so i think i trust his judgment and i know that he s very careful. i worked with him and i still work with him and i know how he works in the field. so i know and i m confident that he s able to take care of himself. this is his third close call. i mean, he was kidnapped in iraq and afghanistan and now here. yeah, it s difficult every single time. it s very stressful. but he decided after afghanistan not to go back to work in afghanistan and dangerous places in iraq. so this does affect him and me and us as a family. these are decisions we have to make. would you want lynsey to go back? i think she can wait until, you know, if gadhafi leaves and there s a new government. they re all very determined journalists and this is why we love them, too. this is part of their life and character. it s like cutting off an ar ....
I don t want to be moved to another car. i don t want to go anywhere, because i m not dead here and now and i don t know what will happen. and what the next group will be like. exactly. lynsey, you weren t spared any different treatment because you were a woman. i think i was spared. i was punched in the face twice. while you were bound? yeah, while i was bound. the first time was right at the beginning when they took us, they put steve and i in one car, and they lifted me up first, two men picked me up and put me in the car. this was before steve got in, and i remember i was sitting in the car, and i m bound and they had bound my hands so tight they were starting to go numb. and i m sitting there, and my hair was falling in my face and you can t do anything. it was really irritating me. and i was sitting there sort of blowing the whiffs of hair out ....