Former hostage Roy Hallums – who was rescued on Wednesday from an isolated farmhouse near Baghdad – left Iraq for the US today, the military said.

Coalition Forces today rescued American hostage Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from an isolated farm house south of Baghdad, a military statement said.

A video emerged today of an American abducted last November by gunmen in Baghdad pleading for his life and appealing to Arab rulers including Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi to intercede to spare his life.