![]() The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks took the unit to a whole different level. ![]() As a result, the HRT was reorganized and doubled in size. It often indicates a user profile.īut debacles at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and Waco, Texas, in 1993 put the unit in the limelight for the wrong reasons. And I don't start breathing until we actually lift up off the ground.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. And so I just break away and I just take off running through the scrub, through the bush, and I throw myself onto that helicopter and push myself up against the wall. And they are trying to assist me to get the the helicopter, but I think I've been out here for months, I can run to this helicopter myself. Scott Pelley: They were gonna take a bullet for you? Jessica Buchanan: It's really hard to comprehend. Scott Pelley: When all of those SEALs laid down on top of you, you were the most important thing in the world for them? And we lay like that until the helicopters come in. I don't know this group of men who's risked their life for me already asks me to lie down on the ground because they're concerned that there might be someone out there. At one point I think they thought they heard something. And they have medicine and they have water, they have food. And then they identify themselves, and that they knew I was very sick. And I'm still asking who these Americans are? I don't understand who they are and I don't understand what they've done. He runs for several minutes and puts me down on the ground. And one of them picked me up and starts running. Black masks, black sky and all I can say over and over is, "You're American? You're Americans? I don't understand, you're American." Thinking, how did you get here? And I'm still alive, and they ask me where my shoes are and I don't know. We're here to take you home, and you're safe." I pull the blanket down from my face and all I see is black. And they say, "Jessica we're with the American military. Like I can't understand that somebody with an American accent knows my name. But it's not a Somali accent, it's an American accent. And I try to protect myself, and I pull the blanket closer on top of me. Jessica Buchanan: And then all of the sudden, I feel all these hands on me. She thought she was being taken by a rival group, maybe al Shabaab the Islamic extremists who would surely kill her. The driver just takes off and we just start slamming down these camel tracks. ![]() Jessica Buchanan: We stopped, very abruptly like so abruptly that I felt like everybody just fall forward and then I started to hear all of this pounding on the windows and the windshield and shouting in Somali and there is a man standing there screaming with an AK-47 and he's shouting and pointing it at us and then he climbs into the car next to me and points an AK into my face and they're hyped up like they're on speed and all of the sudden we just take off. but had begun 93 days earlier when her car was stopped by bandits in a place she calls hell. Hers was an ordeal that ended in a flash of violence. Buchanan was a humanitarian aid worker who had come to help children in one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Jessica Buchanan was being held hostage and the SEALs were descending just in time. On a January night in 2012, members of SEAL Team Six jumped from a plane into the skies of Somalia. It is the tale of a secret mission by SEAL Team Six that few people have heard about until now. Tonight, for the first time, we have the story of the rescue of Jessica Buchanan. The following script is from "The Rescue of Jessica Buchanan" which aired on May 12, 2013. ![]()
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