Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer announced on 24 November that an Australian man, who had been detained by UK troops in raids on suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists, was to be released. Downer told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio that the man, who was detained in the southern city of Umm Qasr, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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