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Play CBS Video Video Hostage Freed In Iraq Suicide bombings and other attacks killed more than 50 people in Iraq, but there was one bit of good news, as a hostage was freed after six weeks of captivity. Kimberly Dozier reports.
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Video Iraq Hostage Talks Release CBS News RAW: Douglas Wood, a 64-year-old engineer and Alamo, Calif. resident, was elated to share his story of how being hostage release in Iraq. Courtesy of DVIDS.
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Video Iraq Hostage Released California resident and Australian native, Douglas Wood, has been released after being held captive for 47 days in Iraq. CBS News' Aleen Sirgany reports from Washington, D.C.
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Blindfolded insurgent suspects arrested by Iraqi forces in Kut, Iraq. (AP)
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Photo provided by Australia's counterterrorism chief Nick Warner, shows former Australian hostage Douglas Wood sitting in the back of a coalition military vehicle immediately after his rescue. (AP)
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In Baghdad, Iraqi legislators seemed close to agreement on a demand by Sunni Arabs for more participation in the effort to draft a constitution.
A Shiite-dominated parliamentary committee drafting Iraq's new constitution offered a compromise to the country's Sunni Arab minority in an effort to break a deadlock over demands they have a bigger say in drawing up the charter.
The offer suggested that 13 additional Sunni Arabs join the committee in a parallel body. The head of a major Sunni religious organization and a spokesman for the community's largest political party rejected committee chairman Hummam Hammoudi's offer.
The Sunni Arab community has said it wants 25 more people to join their two legislators already on the committee. Representatives from the 55-member committee and the Sunni Arab community were scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss the proposal.
An agreement on the constitution would help defuse growing sectarian tension between the majority Shiites, who control the government, and the Sunnis. The minority is thought to make up the core of an insurgency that has killed at least 1,080 people since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's government was announced April 28.
The surge in attacks appeared aimed at derailing efforts by Shiite and Kurdish politicians to bring the disaffected Sunni Arab minority into the political process, particularly the drafting of the new constitution. The new charter must be approved by parliament by mid-August and put to a nationwide vote two months later. If passed, it will be the basis for a new election in December.
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