The Pakistani army rescued most of them, while remaining hostages were freed after tribal elders negotiated their release.
"Karzai and Bush will have responsibility for whatever happens to the hostages, " Ahmadi said.
His freedom had been a stipulation for the hostages being freed, the BBC's Frank Gardner said.
But officials in Logar earlier told the BBC that elders had seen the hostages.
The South Korean government reiterated its opposition to any military attempt to free the hostages.
One member of the SAS was killed, but all the hostages made it out alive.
He said Japanese officials had urged the Algerian government to avoid exposing the hostages to danger.
The conventional narrative of hostages is to send in the military to rescue them.
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Most hostages survived their ordeal, Fletcher said, although relationships, marriages, and careers were often lost.
Later that year, Iranian students took over and seized hostages at the U.S. Embassy.
The pirates stole personal possessions from the crew before departing with their hostages last Thursday evening.
Year-to-date, the IMB reports that Somali pirates held 532 hostages on 26 vessels.
Five American hostages had survived and left the country, US officials told ABC News.
The hostages were released a day after Egyptian authorities intervened, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The Ref has Dennis Leary being Denis Leary, but with a gun and hostages.
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Foreign workers were among the hostages, but the nationalities of the dead are not known.
It said Algerian troops killed 11 Islamist militants after they had killed seven hostages.
The four-day siege is thought to have left as many as 48 hostages dead.
As many as 48 hostages, including Algerians, are thought to have died in total.
We continue to do everything we can towards the safe release of the other hostages.
The third is the fear of provoking collapsing regimes into taking European expatriates as hostages.
In January of that year an attempt to rescue two other hostages resulted in their deaths.
Algeria says 38 hostages of all nationalities and 29 militants died in the standoff.
Sellal said the militants had expected to return to Mali with the foreign hostages.
At least one of the remaining hostages is said to be from Houston, Texas.
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He cried when the hostages came out of Iran, a rare moment of open emotion.
There could be as few as three American hostages, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
U.S. officials said they believe as many as eight Americans were among the hostages.
France will never withhold any means to gain the release of all of its hostages.
The U.S. has confirmed that some of its citizens are hostages but gave no numbers.
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