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Men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near the natural-gas plant in Ain Amenas, Algeria, in this undated photo. Algerian bomb squads on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, scoured the plant, where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage, and found "numerous" new bodies as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery. (AP Photo/Echorouk Elyaoumi)
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Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions during clashes with government forces in Qusair, in Syria's Homs province, on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Syrian government troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus on Sunday while regime warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the capital, including an airstrike on one village that killed at least seven people, activists said. (AP Photo/Yong Homsi Lens)
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Malian soldiers are jubilant as they return to Niono, Mali, from Diabaly, some 300 miles north of the capital, Bamako, on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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People gather during a Guns Across America rally on the steps of the Georgia Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Atlanta. Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals across the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Phil Skinner)
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** FILE ** A group of people believed to be hostages kneel in the sand with their hands in the air at an unknown location in Algeria in this image made from video. Algerian demining teams were scouring a gas refinery on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, that was the scene of a bloody four-day standoff, searching for explosive traps left by the Islamist militants who took dozens of foreigners hostage. (AP Photo/Ennahar TV)
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A French soldier mans a machine gun as French troops pass through San in central Mali en route to Sevare, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)
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This is a April 19, 2005 fiel photo released by Statoil via NTB scanpix, shows the Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix, File)** FILE **
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French troops arrive at Bamako's airport on Jan. 17, 2013, as fighting raged in one Mali town, airstrikes hit another and army troops raced to protect a third on the seventh day of the French-led military intervention to wrest back Mali's north from al Qaeda-linked groups. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** This Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, seen here in April 19, 2005, is where Islamist militants raided and took hostages on Jan. 16, 2013. (Associated Press/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix)
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Statoil CEO Helge Lund reacts Jan. 17, 2013, during a press conference in Bergen, Norway, at the center for relatives to the hostages in Algeria, which has been established near the airport. Algerian forces launched a military assault at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said. (Associated Press/Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix)
