he said to me, your head, your head alone is worth half a million in mogadishu. be careful. >> as amanda left the airport, the capital city was chaotic. back at home, amanda's mother lorinda worried about her daughter. >> i just made sure every time you take talked to her i told her i loved her. >> amanda got to work on her third day in somalia, she was in a car with nigel chasing a story. >> the vehicle started to slow down and i looked up about a dozen armed men were emergeing from where they had been hidden, all of them with a.k.-47. next thing i knew my door was pulled opened and then i found myself lying face down in the dirt spread eagle with a gun held to the back of my head. >> terrifying. i asked, is this about money? and he said to me, ah, it might be something like that. >> all the way back in canada, her mother lorinda stopped hearing from her daughter. she began to fear the worst. she didn't want to be right. but she knew kidnappings were common in somalia. >> you must have felt so helpless. >> i felt we were so far apart and we didn't know where our