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I met Kurt Muse here in Boquete when he visited us and spoke of his story.\u00a0 It was gut wrenching and you could see that his ordeal affected him greatly even to this day.\u00a0 I am looking forward to seeing the movie when it comes out as the book Sixty Minutes to Freedom<\/a> was incredible.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not the bright lights or the room full of people that make Kurt Muse sweat during his speaking engagements.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s reliving the nine months in 1989 that Gen. Manuel Noriega\u2019s police tortured and detained him in solitary confinement, and the memory of coming to terms with what seemed like certain death at the hands of the Panamanian dictatorship.<\/p>\n

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Muse, who lives part time in Fredericksburg, spoke to the Rappahannock Fredericksburg Rotary Club on Wednesday morning about his experience and about the film that is being made about his life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His wife, Anne Muse, attended the meeting with him, and said she \u201crelives it every time he tells the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI get the same lump in my throat every time. I have a lot of pride and no regrets. Panama is a free country now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From 1987\u201389, Muse led a band of Panamanian patriots in a plot to overthrow Noriega. Muse was raised in Panama City and, after serving in the U.S. Army, returned to Panama to raise his family and run a printing and graphics business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said that in 1988, banks closed and the country moved to a barter economy. His business was down 70 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPeople were disappearing, being tortured,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was my home, and I decided I would not leave. Noriega had to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He banded together with seven men he met through his Rotary Club in Panama and formed an opposition group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Public assembly was banned, so they organized under the guise of the business organization, creating an underground radio station to promote resistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His group\u2019s first broadcast was during Noriega\u2019s state of the union address in 1988. Muse and his associates disrupted the transmission and Muse\u2019s voice was broadcast for two minutes. He urged everyone to vote in the next election and ruin Noriega\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That transmission made him the No. 1 target of Noriega\u2019s police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As the resistance progressed, his group disrupted transmissions to soldiers, urging them to rise up and protect Panamanians from the dictatorship. Muse and his group took over a radio station for five minutes during drive time every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He was at a fellow Rotarian\u2019s house when Muse found out his friend\u2014the man who delivered his two children\u2014was being targeted by Noriega\u2019s police. Muse harbored him until he could escape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAll Rotary has a project. Ours became to rescue the civil and moral values of the country,\u201d he told the local Rotarians Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Rotary Club in Panama wanted to hold debates for high-schoolers and college students to get them involved in politics. The club was in the final steps of planning those debates when its president was captured and killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then Muse was captured after flying back to Panama from a business trip to the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI felt scared to go back,\u201d he said, describing a list kept at the airport naming enemies of the government who should be arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After handing over his passport, he saw a handwritten sign that read: \u201cKurt Muse, American Citizen, Arrest on Sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muse was arrested. He said he was tortured and interrogated for four days, after which he was transferred to Modelo Prison and held in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey got everything out of me, but I never gave up my friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THREATENED WITH DEATH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muse was kept in solitary confinement for nine months, and was only taken outside four times. He lost 50 pounds, was subjected to mock executions and was forced to watch men wrapped in American flags tortured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI had a lot of time on my hands, and I set out to solve one of life\u2019s greatest riddles: What is the most important thing in life?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he decided that the most important things were the simplest ones: holding Anne\u2019s hand, running around a park, opening and closing a door, seeing the sun and sleeping a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He used his wits to get more than just a daily cup of gruel. After an unsuccessful coup, he convinced a new guard that he was also given coffee every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou have to look for how to exploit chaos for personal gain,\u201d he told the local business leaders gathered Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At that point, Noriega thought the U.S. was behind the coup, and announced Panama was at war with Americans. He said that if the U.S. invaded Panama, Muse would be the first prisoner executed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Noriega\u2019s men, equipped with machine guns, watched Muse around the clock in case there was a rescue attempt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At night, Muse sat in the corner of his cell and whistled songs from his military service and \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d One night, from the bowels of the prison where men were hanging from chains, Muse said someone responded with the hymn \u201cHow Great thou Art.\u201d It was a gesture that gave him hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018THE BEST CHRISTMAS\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Dec. 20, 1989\u2014the morning of the U.S. invasion of Panama\u2014an Army lieutenant colonel visited him in the prison and said, \u201cIf anything happens to you, no one walks out of this prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was so humbled that anyone would risk it all to deliver that message,\u201d Muse said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At midnight, he heard guns and then an explosion. An elite Delta Force unit had blown a hole into the prison and fought its way to his cell. They rescued him and put him in a helicopter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His chopper was shot down twice, so his rescuers armed Muse. Another helicopter came to their aid and flew them to the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muse said he felt immense guilt that seven men had been wounded rescuing him. Once he was back in the U.S., \u201cI got down on my hands and knees and told them I loved them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muse didn\u2019t know where his family, who had escaped Panama, lived. But the next day, when he was flown to Dulles, they picked him up and brought him back to their townhouse in Burke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was set up for Christmas,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was the best Christmas of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If Muse\u2019s story sounds like something out a movie; it will be soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNo Escape\u201d director John Erick Dowdle has signed on to direct an action thriller based on Muse\u2019s book, \u201cSix Minutes to Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFor the first 10 years, I never spoke about it,\u201d Muse said. \u201cThen gradually, after a few years, I could, and I realized I needed to write a book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere are so many stories of great people. If it weren\u2019t for me telling the stories, families wouldn\u2019t know what these men and women did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThen it became easier. I had to work through my demons, but talking became easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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