Nine Dead, Hostages Saved: SEAL Team 6 Does It Again.First they took out al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden. Now the U.S. Navy SEALs won their "special forces" designation again by carrying out a daring rescue of identifying two aid workers held hostage for three months in Somalia.
U.S. officials have confirmed that this was a Navy SEAL team that carried out the raid before dawn, but the Pentagon for "security reasons" Operation, refused to confirm media reports U.S. it was SEAL Team 6, the same unit that killed bin Laden deep inside Pakistan in May.
American Jessica Buchanan and Danish Poul Thisted, who both worked for the Group Council Danish Refugee clearance, were rescued unharmed after helicopter-borne U.S. commandos landed in the scrubland in central Somalia on Wednesday morning local time An official in Somalia.
They killed the nine kidnappers, the military said. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said no U.S. troops were wounded or killed in the operation, who personally authorized by President Barack Obama.
The SEALs - an acronym for "Sea, Air, and Land" - specializes in maritime reconnaissance and attack, often on ships. They have approximately 2300 highly skilled workers in their ranks, and their raids mostly involve the participation of two teams nearly $ 30 commandos.
For a decade, they were putting their elite training for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their American counterparts in the Army Delta Force and Green Berets.
Team 6 is the elite of the elite, and its missions are classified. While his moment of glory was the spectacular triumph bin Laden, the team 6 is wrapped in secrecy, and its activities are almost never officially recognized.
According to the site GlobalSecurity, SEAL Team 6 is said to have been deployed for a possible - but never tried - the rescue of the cruise ship Achille Lauro hijackers in 1985, and helped to free the American captain of the container ship Maersk Alabama in the middle of a 2009 stand-off with pirates off Somalia.
According to U.S. media, the elite fighters are also believed to have been involved in the mission to save Scottish rescuer Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan after being kidnapped by members of the Taliban in 2010. Ms Norgrove died in the operation.
Despite the stellar success of the past year, the SEALs have also experienced the tragedy during the same period.
Seventeen U.S. Navy SEALs, mainly of the team six were among 38 people killed last August when the Taliban shot down the Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. soldiers in the deadliest incident for U.S. forces and NATO in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001.
6 The team nickname was chosen by the founder of the unit, Richard Marcinko, who wrote in his book Rogue Warrior that he wanted to deceive other nations, including the Soviet Union into believing that the United States had more special operations teams that were in reality.
In the 1980s it had about 90 members, but its size swelled to nearly 300 after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
6 Although the team name is still used, it was not the official name since 1987. The unit was later renamed DEVGRU, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
U.S. officials have confirmed that this was a Navy SEAL team that carried out the raid before dawn, but the Pentagon for "security reasons" Operation, refused to confirm media reports U.S. it was SEAL Team 6, the same unit that killed bin Laden deep inside Pakistan in May.
American Jessica Buchanan and Danish Poul Thisted, who both worked for the Group Council Danish Refugee clearance, were rescued unharmed after helicopter-borne U.S. commandos landed in the scrubland in central Somalia on Wednesday morning local time An official in Somalia.
They killed the nine kidnappers, the military said. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said no U.S. troops were wounded or killed in the operation, who personally authorized by President Barack Obama.
The SEALs - an acronym for "Sea, Air, and Land" - specializes in maritime reconnaissance and attack, often on ships. They have approximately 2300 highly skilled workers in their ranks, and their raids mostly involve the participation of two teams nearly $ 30 commandos.
For a decade, they were putting their elite training for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their American counterparts in the Army Delta Force and Green Berets.
Team 6 is the elite of the elite, and its missions are classified. While his moment of glory was the spectacular triumph bin Laden, the team 6 is wrapped in secrecy, and its activities are almost never officially recognized.
According to the site GlobalSecurity, SEAL Team 6 is said to have been deployed for a possible - but never tried - the rescue of the cruise ship Achille Lauro hijackers in 1985, and helped to free the American captain of the container ship Maersk Alabama in the middle of a 2009 stand-off with pirates off Somalia.
According to U.S. media, the elite fighters are also believed to have been involved in the mission to save Scottish rescuer Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan after being kidnapped by members of the Taliban in 2010. Ms Norgrove died in the operation.
Despite the stellar success of the past year, the SEALs have also experienced the tragedy during the same period.
Seventeen U.S. Navy SEALs, mainly of the team six were among 38 people killed last August when the Taliban shot down the Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. soldiers in the deadliest incident for U.S. forces and NATO in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001.
6 The team nickname was chosen by the founder of the unit, Richard Marcinko, who wrote in his book Rogue Warrior that he wanted to deceive other nations, including the Soviet Union into believing that the United States had more special operations teams that were in reality.
In the 1980s it had about 90 members, but its size swelled to nearly 300 after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
6 Although the team name is still used, it was not the official name since 1987. The unit was later renamed DEVGRU, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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