U.S. Forces Rescue Two Hostages From Somali Pirates

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders in the Somali village of Galkayo said they began hearing an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters.

It was the beginning of a daring and risky mission by dozens of members of the Navy Seals to rescue two hostages — an American aid worker and her Danish colleague — held by Somali pirates since October. They dropped down in parachutes under a cloak of darkness 8,000 miles away just as President Obama was about to deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The commandos hiked two miles from where they landed, grabbed the hostages and flew them to safety.

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