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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A U.S. contractor taken hostage by militants last month escaped from his captors on Sunday and ran into the arms of a group of passing U.S. troops. His escape came on a day when 11 other U.S. soldiers died in violence across central and northern Iraq.
In Washington, the chief U.S. military commander on Sunday appeared to back away from the Iraqi general recently selected to lead the security force in the battle-torn city of Fallujah after questions were raised about the Iraqi general's past association with one of Saddam Hussein's most fearsome military units.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Hostage Escapes
The contractor, Thomas Hamill, a 43-year-old fuel-truck driver whose abduction on April 9 was filmed by an Australian television crew and broadcast around the world, bolted from the house where he was being held on Sunday morning when he apparently heard a group of U.S. soldiers ...
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