Mary Quin told a rapt jury how she stepped on the head of her wounded kidnapper and gained enough leverage to rip an assault rifle from his hand during a 1998 gun battle in Yemen.

“I turned back and I reached down and I grabbed the barrel of his AK-47 … he grabbed the stock, so we were in this tug-of-war,” she said Wednesday. “I was screaming at him. He was screaming at me.”

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