The two hostages, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, were kidnapped in Galkayo in the Mudug Region of Somalia on 25 October. Like in hundreds of piracy cases in the Horn of Africa, here, too, the release of the two employees of the aid organization was negotiated in a negotiation cell of the crisis staff.

The USA used a good tactic in her conflict with Iran: a warning that was conveyed through the press.