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This from latest edition of New York Times

June 15, 2005
Australian Hostage in Iraq Freed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:20 a.m. ET

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An Australian held hostage for four weeks in Iraq has been freed in a military operation, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced Wednesday.

Howard told Australia's Parliament that the hostage, Douglas Wood, was ''safe.''

''Mr. Wood was recovered a short while ago in Baghdad in a military operation that I am told was conducted by Iraqi forces in cooperation in a general way with force elements of the United States,'' Howard said, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.