Sheikh arrives on Wood mercy mission.

Sheikh arrives on Wood mercy mission.:

"Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilaly has arrived in Baghdad to mount a personal appeal to the kidnappers of the Australian national, and to pass on an offer from the Wood family of a donation to the Iraqi people."

I do not wish to say very much because Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilaly is right, this is a difficult situation, people need to keep their big mouths shut and let people who have an understanding of each other and the culture do their very best to create communication. Douglas Wood is one of many. All the ones I spoke about before. They are all people. They all have families and lives and relatives. I think the Douglas Wood family has made a real effort to try and communicate with people whom they do not understand. It is fantastic they have thought to build a website in English and in Arabic so show their goodwill. It is always better to talk. Always.Reach out and touch somebody. I always lapse into truisms at times like this. People are isolated because they build walls instead of bridges, so the saying goes, but what if you explode the walls and then the bridges..what then? How then do you show you want to stop? You want to start building again? Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilaly probably will have a chance to build a bridge because he has an understanding of both sides of the situation and has seen both cultures. That he offered to help is a good sign because until now, he has followed his own advice and kept quiet. Now he obviously feels he has something he can do and it will take every single one to try to resolve this situation and each situation for all the ones from all the nations who are suffering as a result of the situation in Iraq.