Thisted, Denmark News

A crooked Somali cop may have been the one who made the kidnapping of two foreign aid workers in October possible, the safety adviser for their employer told CNN.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man will soon be safely on their way home as a result of a bold, dark-of-night rescue by Navy SEALs.

Freed hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily Thursday, a day after being rescued in a U.S. military raid in Somalia, a spokesman for the base said.

Thisted, Denmark is a rural municipality with 46,000 inhabitants that started going "green" in the 1980s.

This undated photo shows American Jessica Buchanan. She, along with Poul Hagen Thisted of Denmark, was rescued in Somalia early Wednesday, January 25, 2011.