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Sep 20, 2024 · A stint as a rookie stringer in Afghanistan led to her naive acceptance of a Baghdad-based job as a television reporter for an Iranian press agency. Having found post-war Iraq an isolating challenge, only Lindhout would have concluded that lawless Somalia was the obvious next destination.
Sep 21, 2024 · An emotional Amanda Lindhout recounted the horrors of being kidnapped at gunpoint in Somalia as the trial of one of her alleged hostage-takers got underway.
Sep 21, 2024 · Amanda Lindhout, after a year of being starved, beaten and sexually brutalized in Somali captivity, says she was on the verge of suicide.
Sep 23, 2024 · Journalist Amanda Lindhout was able to help authorities arrest her Somali captor, Ali Omar Ader, who held her for ransom as she was raped, after he reached out to her on Facebook and said ‘Hello.’
Sep 18, 2024 · Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives "wife lessons" from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity and on strategy, fortitude, and hope.
Sep 17, 2024 · OTTAWA—After a year in captivity, Amanda Lindhout begged her mother during a frantic phone call to quickly come up with a hefty ransom because her Somalian abductors had started to torture her.
Sep 10, 2024 · As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe.
