Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.