Tag result for article published on Wed January 25 2012 7:33 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Navy Seals, Navy SEALs Team Six, Somalia
U.S. Navy Seal Team Six rescued two hostages overnight. American aid worker Jessica Buchanan and a Danish colleague were freed from kidnappers in Somalia during a U.S. military raid on Jan. 24, 2012. Members of SEAL Team Six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden – dropped into Somalia by parachute and were [...]
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Posted in GlobalConflictMaps.com, Terrorism
Tag result for article published on Wed February 23 2011 5:32 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: hostage, hostage rescue pirate Somalia, hostages, Oman, Somali pirates, Somalia, woman driver
Four yachting enthusiasts from California and Washington became the first Americans slain by Somali pirates since a wave of attacks began six years ago. Scott Adam Jean and Scott Adam, a couple from California, and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, of Seattle, Washington, who had been sailing around the world since December 2004 with [...]
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Posted in Extra! News
Tag result for article published on Sun April 12 2009 1:11 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: hostage, pirate, pirates, rescue, Somalia
Three pirates are dead and one injured and in custody while Capt Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont was safe aboard a U.S. Navy ship USS Bainbridge and then the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer off the coast of Somalia. On April 10, 2009, USS Boxer was en route to assist USS Bainbridge and the USS [...]
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Posted in GlobalConflictMaps.com