Some details of Hamill's escape

"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," [his wife] 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.