they actually fired inside the room." An Iraqi hostage was freed in a house nearby, and two Iraqis detained for questioning over a cache of guns found in the house where Wood was held for 35 of his 47-day ordeal. Those taken into custody had tried to prevent troops searching the house, and initially had said the body under the blanket was that of a sick uncle. Wood's family had taken the novel step of paying for advertisements to be broadcast on Iraqi television and in local newspapers appealing for his life to be spared. --SP 1333 Local Time 1033 GMT
