They Crept Up In Darkness, Surprised The Sleeping Pirates And Flew Out Their Captives In Helicopters: Dramatic Details Behind Bin Laden SEAL Heroes' Rescue Of U.S. Hostage -- Daily Mail
* Jessica Buchanan, 32, was working for aid group clearing mines
* Fellow worker Poul Hagen Thisted, from Denmark, also freed
* Nine pirates killed and five captured in ferocious gun battle
* Navy SEAL Team Six parachuted in and launched raid at dead of night
* Obama congratulates soldiers and Leon Panetta on rescue operation
Dramatic details today emerged of how an elite U.S. special forces team parachuted into Somalia last night to rescue an American woman and a Danish man in a fierce gunfight with their pirate captors.
Aid workers Jessica Buchanan, 32, of Rosslyn, Virginia, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark - kidnapped last October but rescued early this morning - are unharmed and now at a safe location.
Nine Somali pirates were killed and five captured by the SEALs unit responsible for killing Osama Bin Laden, which launched its raid on the pirate base in the middle of the night near Adado, Somalia.
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