Freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood says he would like to see his captors face the "top penalty" under Iraqi law. "I would like them to be arrested, tried and if they have the ultimate penalty as their, yes, so if hanging's the program or if it's life imprisonment, I want the system to work," Mr Wood told Monica Attard on ABC radio's Sunday Profile.| No Stockholm syndrome here... |
Asked whether looking back he was too cavalier, Mr Wood said: "There are certain things I wouldn't do, yes." Pressed on what those things would be, he added: "Like not being so cavalier." Mr Wood told Sunday Profile he did not return to his home in Baghdad nor his business after his release from captivity, so he does not know what is left. He also says he will not contribute to a "five-figure" sum his family plans to pay to an Iraqi charity. "I think I'll limit mine to the families," he said, referring to relatives of his Iraqi workers who were killed.