Navy Seal «Team 6» rescues hostages in Somalia
The Us Navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden as well made an Halo (High altitude low opening parachuting) into Somalia in darkness, early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Nine kidnappers were shooted and both hostages were freed. President Barack Obama cleared the mission by Seal «Team Six» two days earlier, and minutes after he gave his State of the union address to Congress he was on the phone with the American’s father to tell him his daughter was safe. The Danish Refugee Council confirmed the two aid employees, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were «on their way to be reunited with their families». Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, were working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when gunmen kidnapped them in October. The Seal team came in quickly, capturing the guards as they were sleeping after having chewed the narcotic leaf of khat all evening long, a pirate who gave his name as Bile Hussein told to Associated Press by phone. Hussein said he was not present at the site but had spoken with other pirates who were, and that they told him nine pirates had been killed in the raid and three were «taken away».