Analyst's note:  It is great news to learn once again that an element of our special operations forces free more hostages from the Somali Islamist pirates.  Additional hostages are still being held in Somalia.  Note how the media is referring to this enemy as "kidnappers" as opposed to identifying them as Islamists.

"U.S. military forces sent helicopters into Somalia in a nighttime raid Tuesday and freed two hostages, an American and a Dane, while killing nine kidnappers, U.S. officials confirm.

The Danish Refugee Council also confirmed the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagan Thisted, were freed "during an operation in Somalia."

Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, had been working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when they were kidnapped in October.

The raid was conducted by a joint team involving Special Operations Forces, including Navy SEAL Team Six, the same unit that killed Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden in May, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.

[....] attacked at about 2 a.m. at the site where the hostages were being held about 12 miles north of the Somali town of Adado."

[....] Several hostages are still being held in Somalia, including a British tourist and two Spanish doctors seized from neighboring Kenya, and an American journalist kidnapped on Saturday."