Aid workers kidnapped in Somalia are rescued

[Chiron]

(CNN) -- Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Somalia last year were rescued during an operation early Wednesday, a Danish aid group said.

"After being held hostage for three months, American citizen Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted from Denmark have today successfully been rescued from their kidnappers in Somalia," a statement from the Danish Refugee Council said.


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[Chiron]

Spec-ops raid in Somalia frees American, Dane

MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.

The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were freed "during an operation in Somalia." Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, had been working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when they were kidnapped in October……

……Maj. Kelly Cahalan, a military spokeswoman at U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, said she had no information on the raid. A spokeswoman at the Pentagon had no immediate comment. U.S. military rescue operations are typically carried out by highly trained special forces.

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[Slowpoke]

I can see why they wanted to get her out....she's definately fuckable.

[RangerX]

Not only kind on the eyes, but bold as well. She was working with a de-mining unit.

[Steadfast]

By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent

Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET: A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the Navy SEAL team that rescued the American and Danish hostages in Somalia was the same one that killed Osama bin Laden.

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[rgrokelley]

By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent

Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET: A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the Navy SEAL team that rescued the American and Danish hostages in Somalia was the same one that killed Osama bin Laden.

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It must be one of the SEALs super highly classified missions. The public didn't learn about it for at least 24 hours.

[Headoutdaplane]

Why do they keep mentioning her medical condition as a reason to go get her. How about she is a US citizen (and not a journalist, I fully acknowledge my hypocrisy) and that is good enough reason.

[RangerX]

Why do they keep mentioning her medical condition as a reason to go get her. How about she is a US citizen (and not a journalist, I fully acknowledge my hypocrisy) and that is good enough reason.

The medical condition is being used to justify the timing, to deflect interest in the fact that it happened pretty much during the SOTU Address.

[Flesh Thorn]

A well-planned operation: the White House knew that the Somali kidnappers would let their guard down as they became engrossed watching the Address.

I just blew dip all over my laptop.