began a lengthy effort to get abu hamza extradicted., abu hamza was flown to new york to stand trial. quin testified against him, and prosecutors played her tape for the jury. >> quin: do you think that the decision to kidnap some foreigners was a good thing to do? >> islamically, it's a good thing to do. >> whitaker: did you ever imagine that your recording of your interview with abu hamza would end up being evidence in u.s. federal court? >> quin: not-- not in a million years would that thought have occurred to me. >> whitaker: i bet it didn't occur to abu hamza either. the prosecutor called quin's tape, "devastating evidence of the defendant's guilt." the jury convicted him of kidnapping, and also of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in the u.s. last year abu hamza was sentenced to life in prison. quin felt the murdered friends she'd made on the tour, had finally gotten justice. now, she could put it behind her. >> quin: it was a sense of relief that it was over. >> whitaker: so what have you learned from all this? what, wha

she got a prominent muslim cleric, abu hamza, sentenced to abu hamza learned the hard way that you don't mess with mary quin. the kidnapping began as her tour group drove through the yemeni desert. a pickup truck full of gunmen, swerved onto the road, forcing her convoy to stop. >> mary quin: right away, we knew this was-looked like we were going to be taken hostage, this was a kidnapping. >> whitaker: how many kidnappers were there? >> quin: about 18. >> whitaker: were they rough with you? >> quin: yeah. one of the drivers was struck in the face, because i saw blood. >> whitaker: what are you thinking? >> quin: it really felt like you were in a movie. it has that surreal quality that-is this really happening? >> whitaker: much of yemen is surreal. the tour group had explored breathtaking scenery and unique historic sites; but now they were hostages, and some would not survive. quin's companions, mostly brits, included teachers and managers. quin, was a high level executive the gunmen were yemeni rebels, an offshoot of al qaeda. they drove their captives off the main road into the desert

last year abu hamza was sentenced to life in prison. quin felt the murdered friends she'd made on the tour, had finally gotten justice. now, she could put it behind her. >> quin: it was a sense of relief that it was over. >> whitaker: so what have you learned from all this? what, what's the moral to this story? >> quin: the moral first struck me as we were being air lifted away and the bodies that were murdered were wrapped in blankets and laid on the ground and ruth, who, the scottish woman who was killed, her shoes, her feet were poking out the end of the blanket and they were just a few inches away from my feet and i remember looking at her shoes and looking at mine and thinking how easy it would have been that those were my shoes- >> whitaker: you could have been under the blanket? >> quin: under that blanket. and how it was just for the complete randomness of where the two of us were standing that she was dead and i wasn't. >> this cbs sports update is brought to you by ford division. i'm james brown with scores from the n.f.l. tod

their top demand was to get terrorists, including abu hamza's step-son, released from a yemeni prison. to learn more, mary quin flew to london; waited alone outside abu prayers. >> quin: i went right up to him and said, "look, i've come a long way just to talk to you, can you give me 15 minutes, sometime over the weekend? and no, no, he didn't have time. >> whitaker: it's quite bold of you. >> quin: yeah, well i wasn't going to back off. so i said, "please can i come back and talk to you when it's convenient?" and he said, "well come back sunday night." >> whitaker: were you surprised? >> quin: yes. i was taken into his office and ended up talking to him for an hour. >> whitaker: how did you start the conversation? >> quin: i said to him, "i'm mary quin and i was one of the hostages taken by abu hassan in yemen." >> whitaker: what did he say? >> quin: he sort of leaned back in his chair and looked at me and said, "i am very surprised that you would come here." so i had a little micro cassette recorder and i said, "would it be okay if i record the so i put the tape recorder right on hi