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The proposed observation of seven obscured AGN are necessary to obtain a complete and uniform coverage of the X-ray emission for the sample of Seyfert-2 galaxies from the 12micron galaxy sample (12MGS). Coupled with the broad-band X-ray observations available for the remaining 12MGS AGN the proposed observations will allow us to investigate the column density distribution at low redshift for a complete and unbiased AGN sample (because of its mid-IR selection) and to connect the accretion properties to those of the hosts by exploiting the unique multi-band characterization and coverage of the proposed sample. [truncated! Please see actual data for full text]