a lot more about this story as well, can you imagine, he probably can t wait to get his hands on his daughter and give her a big hug and kiss. thank god she s okay. you bet. i want to get you up to speed for this wednesday, january 25th. an american woman and a danish man are free today after being kidnapped in somalia. now, u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s they swooped in, killed the people holding them hostage and brought them out safely. jessica buchanan was in somalia helping remove land mines when she and her fellow worker were snatched in october. now, before anybody knew about this top secret special forces mission last night, president obama congratulated his defense secretary in the state of the union crowd. leon, good job tonight. good job tonight. cnn has now confirmed that the special forces team involved last night was the same from the same unit that actually took out osama bin laden last year. the navy s awesome s.e.a.l. team six, we are live from the pentagon w
knew we were facing asymmetric threats. not big armies, navys, and air force, but terrorists and that type of thing. and our special operators are exactly the kinds of capability we need. and fortunately we have built them up to the point where they re the best in the world without question. mr. secretary, it s been a pleasure talking to you. your book again is known and unknown. a memoir. all proceeds going to charitable organizations. thank you very much. thank you. coming up next, are america s cities safe from terror attack news that bin laden is gone? i ll ask america s mayor, rudy giuliani. ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550
indicating that it was the responsibility of al qaeda to because al qaeda s future, as some of your previous guests kill americans and ruin their have described, is itself property and damage them in uncertain. every way possible. bin laden s been leading this and he was gone. organization for more than 20 and that was a good thing. years. i think that it doesn t mean the now it faces a succession test. task is finished, because he it is dispersed. it may fragment. will have a successor to be so those are all reasons why sure. but it was a good thing. this was an important week. and i also in my book wrote bob woodward, let s turn to pakistan for a moment. about special operators. and i thought of those brave does anybody high level really believe in the white house that young men and the hard-working intelligence people who in a pakistan didn t know anything very joint way working with the about bin laden being right on agency and the department of defense executed this operation th
in charge of prostitutes and chefs for when they come back from a successful hijack. they approach a vehicle low and slow, hijack it, take it to somalia and moor it, and there are camps that are built to support this whole industry and they have all of the time in the world. they just wait it out and negotiate with the owners and insurance companies. they get money dropped to them often in orange canisters parachuted onto the vessel. they have counterfeiting machines to check to make sure the money is not fake, and they count the money and go and release the ship. that s how they do the business model. what more do we know about what was happening within the last three days? you were updating on what made this different. usually they hold them hostage, get their money and let them go. this took a totally different turn. reporter: yeah, it did. what we have been seeing in the high seas is a trend by navys,
right. who were being held for more than 14 months. these pirates are making a huge fortune. the international navys are struggling to contain this problem. okay. tazeen, thank you. we ll get more from you later on. thank you. meantime, demonstrators are gathering in bahrain for another day of protests. richard engle is joining us again by phone from right there in bahrain. richard, i know when we talked with you last, the protesters had started gathering there. we could hear it through your cell phone connection there. how about right now? well, i can walk closer toward the crowds and you can hear them for yourself. it has gotten considerably larger since we spoke and they are now shouting in the back, the people want to topple the regime and i ll go back a little bit so you can hear me more clearly. this is different than the other demonstrations that we have seen.