American arrives in Italy after SEAL rescue (CBS/AP) Updated at 7:59 a.m. An American woman rescued by U.S. Navy SEALs from Somali pirates arrived Wednesday at a military base on the Italian island of Sicily for medical screenings and other evaluations before heading home, CBS News confirmed Thursday. A U.S. defense official said that American Jessica Buchanan, 32, is meeting her family at Naval Air Station Sigonella, which is the hub of U.S. Navy air operations in the Mediterranean and hosts an Italian air force base. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports Buchanan could return to the United States within a matter of days. Details emerge of SEAL rescue raid in Somalia Rescued American's dad "proud" of the U.S. School of American rescued in Somalia relieved She was rescued with Poul Hagen Thisted, a 60-year-old Dane, after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by SEAL Team 6. A key U.S. ally in the region, Djibouti hosts the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, a U.S.-led group organized under U.S. Africa Command. It was the second splashy SEAL Team 6 success in less than a year, following last May's killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The SEALs encountered some degree of resistance from the kidnappers at the encampment, two U.S. officials said, and there was a firefight during an approximately 1- to 1 1/2-hour operation. One defense official said it was likely that the SEALs killed the kidnappers rather than capture them because they encountered armed resistance or the threat of resistance.