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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 27 > Harrowing escape in Mogadishu ends hostage’s ordeal

Harrowing escape in Mogadishu ends hostage’s ordeal

French security adviser slips away from captors, evades gunmen in the streets

By Jeffrey Gettleman / The Bulletin
August 27, 2009

MOGADISHU, Somalia " In the end, it all came down to a single forgotten bolt.

Marc Aubriere, a French security adviser held hostage in Somalia for more than a month, said he simply slipped open a lock on the inside of his cell door " a lock his captors had somehow overlooked. He then....

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