'US raid' frees Somalia hostages
Two foreign aid employees kidnapped in Somalia three several days ago are actually freed in the US military raid, government bodies say.
The overnight raid was performed by military helis and involved US Navy Shuts, unknown Western government bodies mentioned.
A shoot-out adopted but a Danish humanitarian group states the two hostages were untouched.
The Two - a united states lady together with a Danish guy - were snapped up on 25 October.
They'd been employed the Danish Demining Group after they were kidnapped by gunmen near to the north-central capital of scotland - Galkayo.
A close security official, Mohamed Nur, told AFP news agency that a few of the pirates happen to be destroyed.
The freed hostages were considered to possess been flown to nearby Djibouti with the rescuers, he mentioned.
They were named as American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Thisted, 60, of Denmark.
The Danish Refugee Council, that have attempted efforts to free them via mediation, mentioned they were untouched and "inside a safe location".
The british asian news stated the initial hint in the effective operation came out later on from US Leader Obama themselves - while he ready to own Condition in the Union address, he switched to his Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and mentioned "Good job tonight."
