Associated Press

===Kidnapping of Tina Susman===
In 1994, [[Tina Susman]] was on her fourth trip to [[Somalia]], reporting for the AP. She was reporting on U.S. [[peacekeeping]] troops leaving the country. Somali rebels outnumbered her bodyguards in [[Mogadishu]],<ref name=Oprah>{{cite news|url=https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|title=Adventurous Thinkers|last=Burford|first=Michelle|publisher=O, The Oprah Magazine|date=July 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203194721/https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|url-status=live}}</ref> dragged her from her car in broad daylight,<ref name=AJR>{{cite news|url=https://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1281&id=1281|title=When a Journalist is Kidnapped |date=September 1994|last=Callahan|first=Christopher|publisher=[[Philip Merrill College of Journalism]]}}</ref> and held her for 20 days. She told ''[[Quill (magazine)|The Quill]]'' that she believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there.<ref name=Q02>{{cite news|url=https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|last=Dietrich|first=Heidi|title=Women in War Zones|publisher=The Quill|date=20 November 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204191438/https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP had requested news organizations including ''The New York Times'', the ''[[Chicago Tribune]],'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'' to suppress the story to discourage the emboldening of the kidnappers.<ref name=AJR/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|title=In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists|work=The New York Times|first=William|last=Glaberson|date=August 8, 1994|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521121732/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|url-status=live}}</ref>