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Robert Pether: Australian held in Iraq for five years over contract dispute is finally released

The Independent World · 12 October 2026 at 12:47

Robert Pether: Australian held in Iraq for five years over contract dispute is finally released

Pether’s wife says she is ‘hugely relieved’ after months of ‘absolute nightmare’

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Robert Pether: Australian held in Iraq for five years over contract dispute is finally released

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