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 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's foreign minister on Wednesday appealed for the release of an Australian engineer kidnapped in Iraq, saying he has a serious heart condition.
Alexander Downer made the plea in an interview with the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera after an Australian task force arrived in Baghdad to work for the release of Douglas Wood, a 63-year-old resident of California who has an American wife.
"Mr. Wood is not a well man," Downer said in the interview. "He has significant heart problems and he has a wife and he has three brothers and a child and he's 63. He wants to be able to see his family again."
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