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 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian held hostage for six weeks in Iraq was freed in a military operation and is in the hands of Australian forces in Baghdad, Prime Minister John Howard announced Wednesday.
Douglas Wood, a 64-year-old Australian engineer who is a longtime resident of California, was abducted in late April. A few days later, a militant group calling itself the Shura Council of the Mujahedeen of Iraq released a DVD showing him pleading for Australia to withdraw it 1,400 troops from Iraq.
"I am delighted to inform the House that the Australian hostage in Iraq, Mr. Douglas Wood, is safe," Howard told Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday.
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