‘They’d ask me: “Do you want to die today?”’ How I was kidnapped by pirates – and rescued by US Navy Seals

In 2011, aid worker Jessica Buchanan was taken captive in the Somaliland desert. It was more than three months before she was freed – and every day felt like it might be her lastIn the first moments of her kidnapping, Jessica Buchanan’s brain seized up, her mind went blank – but her body knew. Her experience of terror was physical. She struggled to breathe. She somehow turned icy cold, while at the same time she felt roasted alive.“I had this very basic rumination: &lsquo