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U.S. would take prisoners in Somalia

Posted by in Latest dated January 26th, 2012

The U.S. Navy Seals, Special Forces, who on the night of Wednesday freed the Danish hostage Paul Hagen Thisted and his American colleague in Somalia, jumped into the field of parachutes and moved up to camp with hostages on foot.

The sources said the U.S. Department of Defense.

Pentagon recognizes that special forces had originally planned to take the heavily armed hostage-takers to …

Obama praised the rescue before his speech

Posted by in Latest dated January 25th, 2012

According to U.S. media was President Barack Obama is the first to suggest that the Danish hostage Paul Hagen Thisted and his American colleague Jessica Buchanan had been freed by Navy SEALs in Somalia. When he

Tuesday night was to keep his speech on the nation state of Washington gave Obama a clear signal that something was going – or rather well over.

– Good Work When he arrived …

Islamists have occupied the Danish Refugee Council

Posted by in Latest dated November 28th, 2011

Several international aid organizations’ offices in Somalia were Monday captured by the Somali Islamic movement al-Shabaab, including two of the Danish Refugee Council’s local offices.

Islamists declare that 16 aid agencies currently working with humanitarian aid in south and central Somalia, is undesirable.

Danish Refugee Council, two local offices located in Beledweyne and Bulo …

DRC meetings much support in Somalia

Posted by in Latest dated November 5th, 2011

Danish Refugee Council has received strong backing and support in Somalia, after the two aid workers, 60-year-old Paul Hagen Thisted and his 32-year-old American colleague, Jessica Buchanan, was abducted 25th in October.

– We are told that all we are in contact with, is working to help us and to reach the kidnappers with the message that it is utterly unacceptable to kidnap aid workers, …