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Weeks after his escape from enemy hands in Iraq, Thomas Hamill's memory of God's faithfulness remains vivid: God sustained him and removed the pain and fear that otherwise had the potential to overcome him. "I've been a Christian all my life, but it's hard to say exactly if you can put everything in God's hands unless it just comes down to that fact," Hamill told Baptist Press June 7. "That's what happened to me on the deal with being captured. I didn't have anybody else to put it in, and I laid it in God's hands." Hamill was taken hostage...

On April 11, 2004, I was in St. Sharbel  Parish in Warren, Michigan, when I saw Tommy Hamill on the TV. It was Easter. Tommy Hamill was kidnapped on  April 9, 2004. It was Good Friday. “This was out of my hand. I trusted that God would work this out.” Tommy said. When I saw this guy, I felt like fire in my heart to pray for his freedom.I started praying asking the Lord on his day of resurrection to deliver this man from his captors: “Lord, as you set Peter free from the prison,I believe that you can set Tommy free.”  His...

'I Knew I was Coming Home Some Day, They Were Not Going to Keep This Boy' Former Hostage, Thomas Hamill, Recalls His 23 Days in Captivity BRANDON, Miss., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- True Exposures Publishing, Inc., of Brandon, Mississippi, in collaboration with Stoeger Publishing, has announced today they have reached an agreement with Thomas Hamill to tell his story of faith, survival and ultimate escape after enduring 23 days of being held captive by Iraqi insurgents. The book, published by Stoeger Publishing, will be co-authored by award-winning writer and photographer, Paul T. Brown. Release date is scheduled for October 15,...

Forty-one employees of the embattled energy services company Halliburton have been killed in Iraq and Kuwait since the company became the U.S.'s primary contractor in the Iraq rebuilding effort last year. Halliburton's sacrifice in human terms is higher, for instance, than the entire British army's - which has the second largest military presence in Iraq. Twenty-seven British soldiers have killed since the occupation began on May 1, 2003. Despite suffering a staggering death toll, Hallburton's contribution to the war effort has been derided by the Democratic-media complex as war profiteering. When a Halliburton employee is killed, kidnapped or injured in...

Former hostage talks about capture, escape Tuesday, 10PM ET Hamill talks about the day he was captured by terrorists in Iraq and how he was able to survive three weeks of captivity.

RITA COSBY: Well, as many of you know I have just returned from Macon, Mississippi where I was able to do the very first TV interview with former hostage Tommy Hamill whose capture and escape made headlines around the globe. Here now, an amazing story of the human spirit, of survival and of a true American patriot. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) THOMAS HAMILL: (search) They attacked our convoy. COSBY (voice-over): The whole world knew his face and name after this dramatic video was released showing steadfast American Tommy Hamill abducted by masked Iraqi insurgents. It was April 9, and his U.S. supply...

From the same New York Army National Guard unit that picked up escaped hostage Thomas Hamill comes word of a young soldier who killed 20 or more Iraqi insurgents when his patrol was ambushed on Easter Sunday. Spec. Timmy Haag of South Glens Falls, N.Y., made his remarkable display of courage and cool under fire as C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 108th Light Infantry was conducting a sweep of southern Samarra in open 5-ton trucks. The vehicles are so slow and high-riding that it borders on the criminal to transport soldiers on them into a known hot spot bristling...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Fans gave former Iraqi hostage Thomas Hamill a standing ovation Wednesday night as he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Houston Astros baseball game. Hamill, 44, a truck driver for Halliburton subsidiary KBR, was wounded in his right arm and captured when his convoy was ambushed April 9. He escaped May 2 from a farmhouse about 50 miles north of Baghdad and ran a half-mile to a patrol of U.S. military vehicles. Hamill returned home to Macon, Miss., after midnight Saturday. On Wednesday, he visited Houston with his wife and two children to meet with...

Americans awoke over the weekend to the good news that Thomas Hamill had escaped his Iraqi captors. Hamill had been captured by Iraqi gunmen on April 9 and held hostage until his escape three weeks later. His captors demanded the U.S. withdraw from Fallujah or he would be killed. Hamill was captured in Baghdad, but was being held in Tikrit, about a hundred miles away. Hamill reportedly heard a US convoy passing by and made a successful break for freedom. Hamill immediately returned to his makeshift prison – with U.S. troops in tow – and took part in the capture...

Americans awoke over the weekend to the good news that Thomas Hamill had escaped his Iraqi captors. Hamill had been captured by Iraqi gunmen on April 9 and held hostage until his escape three weeks later. His captors demanded the U.S. withdraw from Fallujah or he would be killed. Hamill was captured in Baghdad, but was being held in Tikrit, about a hundred miles away. Hamill reportedly heard a US convoy passing by and made a successful break for freedom. Hamill immediately returned to his makeshift prison – with U.S. troops in tow – and took part in the capture...

Hamill Says Iraq Mission Must Continue By KATHY HANRAHAN, Associated Press Writer MACON, Miss. - Former hostage Thomas Hamill, back home Saturday after his three-week ordeal in Iraq credited God and worldwide support for his survival and said the rebuilding mission that nearly cost him his life must continue. "I knew I was going to make it. I knew I was coming home," Hamill told reporters before a prayer vigil held in his honor at the Noxubee County Court House. "I told the Lord to pick the time and place." Speaking publicly for the first time since his early-morning return...

MACON, Mississippi (CNN) -- Former hostage Thomas Hamill says photos of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqis held in a Baghdad prison affected the way he was treated in the last days before he escaped. Hamill, 44, was driving a truck for Halliburton Corp. subsidiary KBR when his convoy was ambushed on April 9. Four other American contractors were found dead and two are still missing from the convoy. One U.S. soldier was later found dead and one soldier is still missing. Hamill said he chose a low-key reception Saturday to prevent angering those who still hold his co-workers hostage. The prisoner...

<p>MACON, Miss.  — Former hostage Thomas Hamill, back home Saturday after his three-week ordeal in Iraq, credited God and worldwide support for his survival and said the rebuilding mission that nearly cost him his life must continue.</p> <p>"I knew I was going to make it. I knew I was coming home," Hamill told reporters before a prayer vigil held in his honor at the Noxubee County Court House. "I told the Lord to pick the time and place."</p>

Thomas Hamill was interviewed this evening by Rita Cosby who asked him if he'd go back to Iraq. He said he wants to but his family doesn't want him to. He then asked Rita if she wanted to know why he'd go back and he told her "Because George W Bush makes me proud to be an American"!!FOX REPLAYING NOW!!!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American hostage Thomas Hamill was sitting in a mud shack with a bullet wound festering in his arm when he heard the rumble of Army Humvees and made a break for it. He stumbled into the desert and waved his shirt to get the attention of passing soldiers. "He was yelling, 'I'm an American, I'm an American POW,'" recalled Lt. Joseph Merrill, a member of an Army platoon that happened upon the grizzled Mississippi contract worker north of Baghdad on Sunday morning. As Hamill whooped, soldiers radioed in that a farmer was approaching them. Hamill tripped...

<p>MACON — Kellie Hamill left Mississippi today on the first leg of a journey to Germany and a reunion with husband Thomas Hamill, a contract truck driver who spent three weeks in captivity in Iraq before managing his own escape.</p>

BERLIN -- Halliburton truck driver Thomas Hamill arrived in Germany Monday from Iraq, where he escaped from Iraqi captors. A senior U.S. official said the former hostage will be examined at a military hospital in Landstuhl, where he'll be reunited with his wife. It's not known how long he'll stay there. Hamill was reported in good health, but a gunshot wound to his left arm

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Former American hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped from his Iraqi captors over the weekend, has left the country en route to Germany and the United States, a senior U.S. official said Monday. Hamill 43, of Macon, Miss., pried open the doors of the house where he was being held late Sunday morning and ran a half-mile to a military convoy that was passing by near the town of Balad north of Baghdad. The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hamill would go first to a U.S. military hospital at Landstuhl, Germany for a...

<p>May 3, 2004 -- His first escape attempt failed - but courageous Thomas Hamill refused to give up.</p> <p>Hearing a U.S. patrol approaching early yesterday, Hamill pried open a door of the Tikrit home where he had been held for three weeks - and ran for his life.</p>