Mother of POW prays for his rescue

The mother of a captured US soldier who was paraded and questioned in front of tv cameras by the Iraqis has said she was praying for his rescue.

Anecita Hudson, whose 23-year-old army specialist son Joseph was one of five US soldiers shown yesterday on Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, said after watching the tv footage: “From my point of view, he looked so scared.”