no one knows the story better than amanda lindhoud. she was a journalist and kidnapped in august of 2008 and held for ransom. listen. >> i'm in a desperate situation. i'm being kept in a dark windowless room in chains without any clean drinking water and little or no food. i have been very sick for months without any medicine. and i need my government and fellow citizens to assist my family and paying my ransom. >> she was held captive for 15 months. only after friends and family raised the ransom money. many would say enough. they would not come back. she said if she got out alive, she would come back to somalia to help the families here. >> it is remarkable to think you were in captivity for 15 months. what happened next? >> when i was in captivity and i hit the darkest periods of that, i was lit cerally chained in a black room. i began to nurture the idea to make somalia a better place for the people who live there. i saw the teenagers who kidnapped me, 14 or 16 years old, were a product of their environment. when i was released, i