Mike Durant
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And what had happened was the pocket, I had a pocket knife in it, and the pocket flipped over.
So if you reached in, you thought you were getting to the bottom of my pocket, but you weren't because it was flipped over.
And they reached in there, they searched me, but they didn't see the pocket knife.
So I had a pocket knife.
What am I gonna do with it?
I don't fricking know.
But I have a knife, okay?
And I'm like looking at my situation and it's like, oh man, this is bad.
And they're arguing amongst themselves.
You could tell they didn't know what to do.
They hadn't really planned this contingency.
And they suddenly come back in the room and they hoist me up again.
and they run me out to a flat, like a truck with a big flat surface on the back, throw me on the back of that, throw a tarp over me and then get on the back of the truck.
Cause you know, in these third world countries, right?
If you can fit 50 people, you can fit 51 on the back of the thing and they all pile on.
And basically they don't want anyone to know, obviously American or Somali, that I am there.
Now, according to Mark's research, what actually happened here is that the people that overrun the site are not Haber-Getter.
They're some other clan.
And they reached a deal, probably a monetary deal, with Adid to turn me over to him.
And the group that comes to get me to move to the second location is Adid's people, and that's why they moved me so quickly to another location.