Nigel Brennan

And then they would just walk out.

the car was just pounding up and down.

And I had Amanda on my lap, so I was sort of bracing my hands on the roof because it was that rough.

And then the guy beside me is like, mobile phones, mobile phones.

So the two drivers, Abdi and Amanda, basically handed their mobile phones to them.

And mine was in my pocket, in my ass-cheek pocket, and I couldn't get to it.

So I just...

didn't do anything and left it there.

And we drive along following the car in front.

And again, it's hard with timeframes, I guess, when you're under such stress.

But it felt like about 10 minutes we were driving for, going in through little villages and then back out into sort of bush, cross-country areas.

We stop, Amanda's then basically ordered from the vehicle and she's put in the front car.

And at that point, I was sort of expecting us to go in two different directions and was quite concerned that we had obviously been separated from one another.

Cars, again, continue to take off and move forward at high speed, drive for another five, ten minutes, I'm assuming, and then we stop again and then I'm taken out of the vehicle.

So Abdin, the two drivers are left.

I'm put into the vehicle with Amanda.

so there's obviously a guy driving and then there's another man who introduces himself as Ahmed who speaks fluent English says pretty much that I don't need to be concerned that they are part of the Somali Mujahideen and their leaders are aware that we are in the country and they obviously want to meet us to understand what we're doing in Mogadishu

Oh, I guess it was part of me that sort of wanted to believe that a little bit.

But look, I think that was sort of evaporated very quickly once we pulled up in a small little village and there was a bit of confusion between the people that had taken us.

And then finally...