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Freed hostage journalists Canadian Amanda Lindhout, second right, and Australian Nigel Brennan, right, sit together after their release from captivity, with unidentified officials at the Presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. The two freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter, and Nigel Brennan, a freelance Australian photojournalist, were kidnapped in Somalia in August 2008 and freed on Wednesday after more than a year in captivity. (AP Photo/Government of Somalia)