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Robert Fowler, A Season in Hell
Robert Fowler, a Canadian diplomat who was taken hostage by al-Qaeda in 2008 and held captive in the middle of the Sahara desert, tells Marc Montgomery about his 130-day nightmare. Robert Fowler’s ordeal is described in the book, A Season in Hell.
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