US hostage Thomas Hamill escapes Articles / In The News Date: May 02, 2004 - 08:48 AM Lets Just praise the Lord. Our prayers have been answered. He is coming home alive. American hostage Thomas Hamill, kidnapped three weeks ago in an insurgent attack on his convoy, was found by US forces south of Tikrit after he apparently escaped from his captors. Mr Hamill, 43, of Macon, Mississippi, was in "good health," said Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt. US military units were patrolling a petroleum pipeline when Mr Hamill, a truck driver for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, approached and identified himself. "Mr Hamill apparently escaped from a building," Brigadier-General Kimmitt said. "He has spoken to his family. He is now ready to get back to work." In Macon, Mr Hamill's wife, Kellie, said she received a call about 5.50am (8.50pm AEST) telling her that her husband had been found alive. She said it was "the best wake-up call I've ever had". Please post a praise She said one of the first things she did was to wake up their children. "There has been a lot of praying and I am so grateful to everybody," she said. "We're all so relieved, so excited." She said she had no idea when her husband would be returning home or when she would be able to see him. "I want everybody to know he's been found," she added. "I'm going to be shouting it from the rooftops." Mr Hamill re-appeared about 150 kilometres north of the Abu Ghraib region, west of Baghdad where he was snatched on April 9 during an attack on a supply convoy in which he was driving. There had been no word on his fate since his kidnappers released a video a day after his capture, showing him standing in front of an Iraqi flag. A spokesman heard on the video threatened to kill him within 12 hours unless the United States lifted the Marine siege of the city of Fallujah. Mr Hamill's abduction came amid a flare-up of kidnappings of foreigners during the intense violence that began in early April. Up to 40 people from a wide range of nationalities were abducted, though most were later freed. One hostage, an Italian, was executed by his captors, who filmed the slaying and sent a video to Arab television stations. An American soldier, Keith Maupin, remains in the hands of kidnappers, as do three other Italian security guards. Mr Maupin and Mr Hamill were in the same convoy that came under attack on the western outskirts of Baghdad, one of many amid an insurgent campaign against supply routes around the capital. This article comes from World's Largest Prayer Board Annointed.net News http://www.annointed.net/ The URL for this story is: http://www.annointed.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=595