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J. Peter Pham on PBS’s NewsHour to Discuss Hostage Rescue in Somalia

January 25, 2012

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS’s NewsHour program about the rescue by US Navy SEALs of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague who had been held hostage since October in north central Somalia. Also interviewed on the segment was NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman.

Click here to access the program transcript

Watch "Who Was Behind Kidnapping, Rescue in Somalia?" on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

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