Top security personnel suggested the mission after seeing the captured woman’s video diary, recorded over approximately the past twelve months. Video entries include the woman being introduced to the Peloton torture method, early morning panic attacks, and retrospectives of how imprisonment has changed her.

“We applaud this brave young lady’s ability to communicate details leading to her own rescue through subtle expressions and language,” said Pentagon spokesman Karl Baron. “What her captors intended as propaganda, she leveraged for her own liberation.”