This from latest edition of New York TimesJune 15,...

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.