Some good news from Iraq: US Hostage Hamill Escapes in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - American hostage Thomas Hamill, kidnapped three weeks ago in an insurgent attack on his convoy, was found by U.S. forces Sunday south of Tikrit after he apparently escaped from his captors, the U.S. military said. An official said he was in good health.

Hamill, 43, of Macon, Miss., was discovered when he approached a U.S. patrol from the 2nd Battalion 108th Infantry, part of the New York National Guard, in the town of Balad, 35 miles south of Tikrit, a spokesman for U.S. troops in Tikrit said.

Hamill’s wife, Kellie, spoke to her husband early Sunday by telephone. She said Hamill told her that he was locked in a building

“He said he heard a military convoy come by and pried the door open. He said he ran half a mile down the road and got with the convoy,” Kellie Hamill said.

Hamill identified himself to the troops, then led the patrol to the house where he had been held captive. The unit surrounded the house and captured two Iraqis with an automatic weapon, said the military spokesman, Maj. Neal O’Brien.