Washington (CNN) -- U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia in a pair of helicopters in a daring overnight raid to rescue two kidnapped aid workers -- an American and a Dane -- and killed the nine gunmen holding them, American officials said Wednesday.
The hostages, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, were seized in October after they visited humanitarian projects in northern Somalia, said the Danish Refugee Council, the agency for which they worked.
Both are unharmed, the aid group said.
They were taken to a regional medical facility and were receiving care from U.S. military doctors and nurses, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Wednesday.
CNN LinkSEAL Team #6 kickin' ass and taking NO prisoners. All 9 of the Somali captors were sent to hell (with Allah presiding, of course).
Dumb bastards had been chewing qat, a plant of some type that has a narcotic effect. It's what those ****sticks do, apparently, when they're not actively robbing, killing, or pirating something or someone that doesn't belong to them.
The assault team apparently parachuted in from their aircraft that had taken off from the Marine base in Djibouti and proceeded to kill the captors and rescue the two hostages - one 32-year-old American woman and one 60-year-old Dane, both of whom had been working for a Danish humanitarian effort when they were taken prisoner last October.
The American woman has a medical condition that became life-threatening, which is apparently what it takes for Lord Zero to authorize American forces to get rid of bad guys.
Little to no political risk with this one, evidently, so the Jerk-in-Chief readily signed on.
