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Freed 77-year old hostage German Marianne Petzold is pictured with her bandages as she attends a ceremony with Mali President Amadou Toumani (out of camera range) after she was released along Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler UN special envoy to Niger, and his assistant Louis Guay (Both out of camera range) and Swiss Gabriella Greitner by Al-Qaeda-linked captors after months as hostages, in Bamako on April 23, 2009. Malian authorities said Wednesday the four were released after being held hostage "in the Sahel zone" and were generally in good health. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) claimed responsibility in February for the kidnapping of the Canadian diplomats in December and the four tourists snatched in January.
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