Persistence Pays Off in Search for Hostage

"Clues as to Wood's whereabouts emerged after Operation Lightning - a broad counterinsurgency campaign - was launched May 29 in Baghdad. Warner cited "specific intelligence and tips that provided a hint at what might be found at that location."

He said he did not want to reveal too many details, but noted that Wood was rescued from Ghazaliya - one of Baghdad's most dangerous Sunni Arab neighborhoods, located near the road that links the city to the airport and is considered the capital's most perilous stretch of concrete."
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