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Family of Australian hostage offers Iraq donation

The family of an Australian held hostage by Iraqi militants pledged a donation to the Iraqi people on Monday as a deadline loomed to meet his captors’ demands and the leader of Australia’s Muslims made a mercy dash to Baghdad. Malcolm Wood asked for the group holding his brother Douglas, a 63-year-old engineer who lives in California and is married to an American, to tell them how they would like the Wood family’s donation to be spent. Full Story