arrested by a resistance group in Iraq. |
Both of us are in good health and look forward to returning to our respective families. |
Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad, |
health is in a very bad situation. |
I didn't use my muscles for 10 months. It's like somebody who has been in the hospital for an extended period. |
I have waited for that day for more than 330 days. I just had so many dreams that he would be free. |
I mean two weeks ago, I was still in that room you know. |
I want to thank all of those involved in my rescue, those who continuously tracked my captors and location, and those who physically brought me freedom today. |
It was about 9 by 11 and maybe 4 1/2 feet tall because it was a basement. It was just concrete, concrete floor concrete walls. |
My hands and feet were tied. I had a blindfold on the whole time. They would turn on a small light like a refrigerator light bulb, about that bright. After I ate the food they would turn it off and lock the door again. |
People you don't know come up to you with weapons and say come with us or we'll kill you. |
So I could tell Friday at 11 when I could hear the Imam's call people to prayer so I would keep count that way. |
so that I can be released as quickly as possible from this definite death. |
They just asked me my name and I told them and he said C'mon let's get out of here and it was like the day I was kidnapped it was like well this can't be real, I've been here 311 days and now I'm free. It's just a miracle. |
This is a terrible situation for Jill Carroll and her family but people have come through it and families have come through it and get back to a normal life. |