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Navy SEALs Rescue Two Aid Workers in Somalia in Daring Raid (Killed all nine kidnappers)
ABC News ^ | 1/25/2012 | Luis Martinez

Posted on 01/25/2012 8:16:25 AM PST by Beave Meister

A U.S. special operations team of Navy SEALs rescued two aid workers in Somalia Tuesday night, including a U.S. woman who had been held hostage for three months by Somali kidnappers and suffered from a life-threatening medical condition.

Jessica Buchanan, 32, of Bedford, Va., and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark, were abducted Oct. 25 by a band of Somalis while on their way to the airport in Galcayo, located in central Somalia. Both were working for the Danish Refugee Council's Danish Demining Group, and had just finished a training course for local Somali citizens when they were abducted.

In a statement released by the White House, President Obama said he had authorized a rescue mission Monday.

"Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our Special Operations Forces, yesterday Jessica Buchanan was rescued and she is on her way home. As Commander-in-Chief, I could not be prouder of the troops who carried out this mission, and the dedicated professionals who supported their efforts," Obama said in the statement.

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To: Beave Meister

Light ‘em on fire first... THEN you can piss on ‘em.


21 posted on 01/25/2012 9:41:25 AM PST by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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To: Beave Meister

“Killed all nine kidnappers.”

Well, they’re in deep doo doo now. Some of those kidnappers were probably relatives of the chosen one.

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22 posted on 01/25/2012 9:45:59 AM PST by flatfish
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To: MaxMax
I wonder what the left will say when it is inevitably reported that some of the kidnappers were under 15 years old.

TS

23 posted on 01/25/2012 9:51:31 AM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: Beave Meister
Killed all nine captors.....GREAT.

So, the SEALS sprayed them with lead, but not urine. I'm so relieved. [/s]

24 posted on 01/25/2012 11:13:54 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: NoGrayZone

Whoever is assigned to take on the combined Special Operations and intelligence community and murder must be quite a powerful organization.

Where do they recruit their operators, where do they train them, how do they turn them against their former Green Berets, SEALS, Rangers, CIA, military Intelligence and all the other parts of SOCOM that they must have come from, and how do they hide from them, escape them, do you really think that a rogue intelligence, and Special Operations assassination group was created by Obama to murder the Intelligence and Special Operations members?

What do you think will happen when our Special Operations pros figure out that the US Govt is murdering them?


25 posted on 01/25/2012 11:56:01 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
"What do you think will happen when our Special Operations pros figure out that the US Govt is murdering them?"

America returns...taking out the anti-American opposition.

26 posted on 01/25/2012 12:15:37 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: NoGrayZone

Your conspiracy is idiotic, see post 25.


27 posted on 01/25/2012 12:25:39 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

Tell that to the Seals families who were shot down after the “demise” on bin laden.


28 posted on 01/25/2012 12:53:09 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: NoGrayZone

Since the Navy and Army, and Air Force personell who were among the Americans were already part of the secret, Special Operations/Intelligence community, I know that their families would be mocking you as an idiot for thinking that they are the fish rather than the sharks.

Think a little bit about your fantasy.


29 posted on 01/25/2012 1:08:14 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

My fantasy? That fantasy about the Seals being killed after the bin kill? That one?


30 posted on 01/25/2012 1:26:23 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: NoGrayZone

Well that explains how cloudy your mind is.

Someone points out how ridiculous your conspiracy fantasy is of Obama somehow creating, training, and managing, an assassination force to murder members of our governments Commando/Intelligence elites, and you think that he is denying the battle deaths from that helicopter shot down in Afghanistan.


31 posted on 01/25/2012 1:39:34 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

Blah blah blah. That is what I hear when you speak.

Please, stop speaking to me.


32 posted on 01/25/2012 1:50:47 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: NoGrayZone

Please stop attacking our Special operations community as both victims and murderers of each other in some secret Obama struggle.


33 posted on 01/25/2012 2:03:05 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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