Australian hostage Douglas Wood was rescued when Iraqi soldiers stumbled across him during a security sweep in Baghdad, according to a U.S. military official. . .
. . . Soldiers from the Iraqi army were conducting a pre-planned search in the al-Adel neighborhood of northwestern Baghdad on Wednesday morning when they came upon Wood and an Iraqi national being held hostage.
The soldiers, from the 2nd Battalion 1st Brigade of the Iraqi army, had not been acting with specific intelligence on his whereabouts, the official told CNN.
And fortunately they found more than just the hostages themselves:
In the course of the operation, they met light resistance and as a result three people were detained. Their nationalities are not known. . .
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luster to all its parts that no one bound to the farther shore could know it
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