You might think the rescue of Australian hostage Douglas Wood would merit its own article, but al-Reuters combines it with a heaping helping of bad news and serves up a good example of MSM “Big But” journalism: Australian freed in Iraq; bombs kill nearly 40.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops found and freed an Australian held hostage in Baghdad on Monday, the latest of several recent success in recovering foreign captives.

BUT two bomb attacks on Iraqi troops and police, including one in which a soldier may have blown himself up with nearly 30 other troops, showed insurgents remain a deadly force.

Iraqi soldiers came across Douglas Wood, a 63-year-old U.S.-based engineer, lying tied up under a blanket as they searched a house they suspected was being used by gunmen.

Coming four days after the release of a French journalist and three weeks after Romanian reporters who were held by the same group, there was speculation that security services may be closing in on kidnap gangs — although it appeared Wood’s discovery may have owed more to chance than intelligence.