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Navy SEALs rescue captives from Somali pirates
By: Bill O'ReillyJanuary 25, 2012
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Miami Herald: American commandos dropped into Somalia on Tuesday night to rescue two aid workers who were held hostage, including an American, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.

The news of the raid came hours after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. While Obama made no mention of the rescue mission, he was seen telling Defense Secretary Leon Panetta before the speech, "Good job tonight."

Members of Navy SEAL Team 6 - the team that led the operation last May that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan - were part of the mission, Pentagon officials said. Arriving by helicopter, the special forces troops killed nine Somali kidnappers and captured several others. They then rescued the American woman and Danish man whom the Somalis had been holding since October.
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