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Navy SEALs rescue aid workers in Somalia

Surprise raid kills 9 pirates Obama tuned in to operation

By Eric Schmitt and Jeffrey Gettleman

 |  New York Times  

  January 26, 2012

U.S. Navy SEALs swooped into Somalia early yesterday and rescued two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, after a shootout with Somali gunmen who had been holding them captive in a sweltering desert hide-out for months.

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