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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
There have been several reports, however, that agents have carried out covert
missions there in recent years as part of America’s
campaign against Islamic terrorism.
US officials refused to comment on Wednesday morning’s mission, but the Danish
Demining Group, the aid agency for which the pair worked, confirmed that
they had been freed.
Both were “unharmed and at a safe location” and “are on their
way to be reunited with their families”, the organisation said in a
statement.
The US military reportedly commandeered the use of an airport at Galkayo town,
the largest settlement close to the pirates’ strongholds in the centre of
Somalia.
Locals were warned to keep away as helicopters landed and took off in the
early hours of Wednesday morning. It is understood they flew in from
Djibouti, a small country on Africa’s Red Sea coast which hosts a US
military airbase.
The hostages are believed to have been flown there immediately after being
freed and officials were coordinating their onward travel back to the US and
Denmark following medical checks.
A pirate who gave his name as Bilal Hussein told the Associated Press that he
had spoken to pirates at the scene of the raid and they reported that nine
pirates had been killed.
Other unconfirmed reports said that five pirates were taken by the Americans
during the raid. It was not clear if they were alive or dead.
Miss Buchanan and Mr Thisted were kidnapped in October as they carried out
programme work for the Danish Demining Group, under contract to the Danish
Refugee Council.
Security teams hired to protect them were behind their kidnap, local officials
said at the time they were seized.
The US operation raises the pressure on Britain to follow suit to free Judith
Tebbutt, from Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, who was kidnapped by Somali pirates
during a holiday on neighbouring Kenya’s coast.
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