em online in "the boston globe" archives. but the somalia story, i was a foreign correspondent, and i was in somalia. i was covering the civil war. i went with a photographer, ya mi kim course, to be taken hostage. i did everything that i could to make sure that i was going into a place, you know, where nobody was looking for me, heck. i wanted to get in there, write the story and get out. and so one of these aid workers in kenya had said fly to bardeera. that's a village that was already attacked two months ago, so the rebels aren't going to circle back so soon and attack it again, so you're safe. go in there, do your story, andd we'll d we've got a transport plane that's bringing some wheat and corn there in two days, and you can hop on the ride and come back to kenya. well, just as luck would have it, on the first night i was there, rebels came out of nowhere and attacked the village. and it was a scary situation, you know, but we got out, kimbu and i got out. there was a lot of strategic moves made, and there was a ransom paid for us by foreign governments. the u.s. wasn't involved, you know? but they let it be known that they cared about us to get us out of ther