...American Jessica Buchanan (click title to entry - thank you) and Dane Poul Thisted, who both worked for the Danish Refugee Council Demining Group, were rescued unharmed after helicopter-borne US commandos swooped in on scrubland in central Somalia early Wednesday local time, according to a local Somali official....
Evidently, there were no diplomatic missions that would rescue the pair. Why do NGOs go into such dangerous areas of the world? I realize there are people starving in Somalia, but, there has to be a limit to the amount of danger NGOs expose themselves. Being kidnapped dismantled any ability to deliver the care the people of Somalia need.
By the order of the President of the United States (click here) and under the direction of U.S. Africa Command (U.S. AFRICOM), early Wednesday morning, January 25, 2012, U.S. Special Operations Forces rescued an American citizen and a Danish citizen from captivity in Somalia.
Mrs. Jessica Buchanan of the United States and Mr. Poul Thisted of Denmark, who both worked for the Danish Demining Group, a non-profit humanitarian organization, were kidnapped at gunpoint on October 25, 2011, near Galcayo, Somalia, and were being held for ransom.
The Department of Justice requested assistance from the Department of Defense, which, in turn, directed U.S. AFRICOM to plan and conduct the rescue operation....
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