Encore: Kidnapped in the Desert | Beyond the Green Line | 1

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 2011, humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan is traveling through the Somali desert when she and a colleague are kidnapped by land pirates. Her organization quickly springs into action and brings in negotiators who wait for a ransom call. Meanwhile, three hundred miles away, Jessica’s husband Erik does whatever he can to bring her home, while Jessica fights to stay alive one day at a time.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:05.1	Download the app today.
0:06.9	Hey, I'm Cassie Depegel, host of Against the Odds, where we tell true stories of people
0:13.4	overcoming the toughest conditions.
0:16.7	Since we launched the show a year ago, we featured tales of avalanches, shipwrecks, mine
0:22.5	collapses, and more.
0:24.5	Often, these harrowing conditions mean survivors must fight to stay alive one day at a time,
0:31.2	as was the case for Jessica Buchanan.
0:33.8	As a humanitarian aid worker, Jessica was traversing the Somali Desert in 2011, when she was
0:39.9	kidnapped by Somali land pirates.
0:42.8	We're re-airing the remarkable story of how she and her coworker survived 93 days in
0:48.3	captivity before they were finally rescued by Navy SEALS.
1:03.1	It's 3pm on October 25, 2011.
1:06.6	31-year-old Jessica Buchanan grips the handle of a land cruiser's passenger door as the
1:11.5	car bumps over the reddit path.
1:14.3	Here, there are no real roads, just rocks and dirt.
1:19.0	There aren't any red lights, either.
1:21.5	People here know you don't stop a car for anything.
1:24.7	A stopped car is an instant target.
1:31.2	Jessica's in a no-man's land, south of the small city of Galkaiow in the Somali Desert,
1:37.0	beyond what's called the Green Line.
1:39.3	The Green Line is the last stop where the Somali government has any sway.
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