Japanese, Australian hostages released

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/15/1081998307368.html

Meanwhile, Donna Mulhearn, 34, of Maitland, defended her decision to go to Falluja as a tenuous ceasefire was being put in place, saying it was "no more crazy than sitting in my loungeroom and telling myself that there is nothing I can do."

She spoke of a naive expectation that her Australian passport might protect her from US gunfire as she distributed humanitarian aid in the town; how she and her friends were caught in the crossfire as they tried to leave; and how their car was suddenly surrounded by Sunni militiamen who bound her male colleagues before shuttling them from house to house before releasing them after 20 hours

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She and her humanitarian colleagues had come under US fire as they distributed aid in Falluja on Tuesday.

"We held up our passports and used a loud-hailer to tell them what we were doing, but they started shooting."

That says it all......