God, Bible Buoyed Captivity Survivor
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1st part:
Libya revolution snags Coeur d’Alene man
At the prison in Tripoli, as July stretched into August, Richard Peters’ captors were growing aggravated. He said he found it easy to resist their efforts to get him to say he was a “spy” for anti-Gadhafi rebels – as a former
special forces guy, he was tough and smart, and he kept a positive attitude, though they sometimes questioned him for hours. At one point, he said, they tried to use his background against him and accused him of being a “human frog” – a mangling of the term frogman. He says he laughed, angering them further. Meanwhile, Peters had managed to contact people on either side of his cell. They could whisper back and forth through the electrical sockets. Peters spoke to a Spanish prisoner he called Johnny Bravo on one side, and two journalists on the other side. “What I’m doing, I’m talking to them about the Lord,” he said, voice rising in excitement. “I brought Johnny Bravo to the Lord through that 220-volt socket in prison in Tripoli.” Despite the hardship, Peters experienced something exhilarating. “I read my Bible, I prayed, I walked with God – it was incredible,” he said/
Shawn Vestal
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Question: Which book would you want with you to read, if you were imprisoned in Libya as Richard Peters of Coeur d’Alene was this summer?
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