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Australian doctor who survived seven years in the desert as a prisoner of Al Qaeda speaks for the first time

Kidnapped from his Burkina Faso home at gunpoint in 2016, Ken Elliott survived seven years in the desert as a prisoner of Al Qaeda.
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His captors showed no interest in using Ken's medical skills. Some of them were profoundly sceptical about Western medicine anyway.

"Muslims don't get sick," one of them pronounced – which after decades of treating sick Muslims in Djibo, came as news to Ken Elliott.

Of course, they tried to convert him. But Ken was adamant: "The Lord has been good to me. There's no way I was going to dishonour Him by converting to Islam. Or even pretending to convert."

"Well, some might say that the Lord hadn't been doing you any favours for this period of your life," I put to him. "Didn't you ever feel that God had abandoned you?"

Quiet conviction: "Never. No. He was always there."

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Hmm...

Religion is strictly forbidden. I'll leave the post above this as it makes no attempt to convert anyone and isn't discussing specifics. However, discussing that post may be problematic.
 
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We have good rain today, the slow soaking kind. Got a few drops yesterday.....maybe enough to wet the back of your hand.

I think that will be about all. I was hoping for downpours !!!

They are forecasting a wetter than average summer, but also a hotter than average summer to go with it.

 
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