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Mar 10, 2007, 15:47 GMT

Germany doing all it can for hostages, minister says (Extra)

Berlin - Germany will do everything in its power to secure the release of two German hostages held in Iraq, Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier said Saturday. The minister said a foreign ministry crisis team was studying the video in which the kidnappers threatened to kill the hostages, a mother and her son, unless Germany starts withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days. Steinmeier described the video, in which the 61-year-old woman was shown begging for her life, as 'a distressing document.' The Berlin-born woman, who is married to an Iraqi professor, was kidnapped along with her son in early February by gunmen who broke into the family's home in Baghdad. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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