Somalia rescue aside, expensive ransoms are route to freedom for most hostages

AFFAN CHOWDHRY

U.S. President Barack Obama added to the growing narrative around a commander-in-chief who has authorized gutsy military strikes to secure the freedom of captive Americans and eliminate the country’s enemies.
On the day Mr. Obama delivered his televised State of the Union address, U.S. special forces carried out a successful rescue operation to free an American and Danish aid worker held captive by pirates for more than three months in Somalia.

The operation was done

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