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SEAL Team Six Rescues Hostages in Somalia

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    Nighttime raid kills nine kidnappers

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Perhaps the biggest sign bill was when the president walked into.

To the chamber and he shook hands with that Leon Panetta the Defense Secretary here's what he said.

We should have known what he was talking about at that point but we did and it was.

That this raid had been called.

He -- good good job tonight to Panetta.

We can confirm that fifteen.

US forces were involved in the raid into Somalia to rescue those two hostages.

They were from from the Navy SEALs.

Wit but fifty people on the ground in Somalia.

Those two hostages had been held since October bill.

This is quite interesting because it wasn't just on one of these ships out at -- this was actually on the ground there in that it it in country.

And we know with the Navy SEALs reports it was team seal six.

Where the hostages the former hostages now Jennifer.

Well what we know is that the of their raid was launched from camp LaMont DA in Djibouti that is -- That is where most of the drone flights over the Horn of Africa and and Yemen are -- out -- we understand that the hostages were taken there and are still on the ground there President Obama spoke last night to.

Jessica Buchanan's father we have a picture that was released by the White House but -- that seal team as well as the hostages.

Flew to Djibouti after they freed the hostages and killed those nine Somali captors.