Score another coup for Barack Obama.
Last night, while the president delivered his confrontational State of the Union address, a special forces SEAL unit parachuted into Somalia to rescue an American woman.
During the fierce gun battle, nine Somali pirates were killed and five captured by the SEALs. The U.S. special forces team was the same SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.
The elite U.S. special forces team which killed Osama Bin Laden parachuted into Somalia last night and rescued an American woman and a Danish man in a fierce gun battle with the pirates holding them hostage.
Aid workers Jessica Buchanan, 32, of Rosslyn, Virginia, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark, who were kidnapped last October, are unharmed and at a safe location. Source
Obama didn’t waste any time claiming credit for the successful mission.
“This is yet another message to the world that the United States of America will stand strongly against any threats to our people.
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.”
Prior to the raid, Mr. Obama placed a call to Ms. Buchanon’s dad John to say: “All Americans have Jessica in our thoughts and prayers, and give thanks that she will soon be reunited with her family.”
