Thomas Hamill Escapes

Great news from AP, via Stars and Stripes:

American hostage Thomas Hamill was found by U.S. forces south of Tikrit Sunday after he apparently escaped from his captors, the U.S. military said. Hamill, 43, of Macon, Miss., had been held since an April 9 attack on a convoy.

U.S. military units were patrolling a petroleum pipeline when Hamill, a truck driver for a Halliburton Corp. subsidiary, approached and identified himself, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt. Hamill was in "good health," Kimmitt said.

"Mr. Hamill apparently escaped from a building," Kimmitt said. "He has spoken to his family. He is now ready to get back to work."

In Macon, Hamill's wife, Kellie, said she was told about his escape at about 5:50 a.m. during "the best wakeup call I've ever had."

That news was so good the AP had to shoehorn this in as the lead paragraph before telling it:

NAJAF, Iraq ? Shiite militiamen attacked a U.S. convoy in southern Iraq, killing two soldiers and setting vehicles on fire, even as mediators were trying Sunday to find a resolution to the U.S. standoff with the militia's leader. Two other American soldiers were killed in Baghdad.

Headline: Al-Sadr forces attack convoy, kill two; hostage Thomas Hamill found alive

The feel good story of the week - and it's still Sunday!!

Update: I note that I see a good story burried in bad news - others could claim the bad news is being sugar coated. Others will think the story I call "bad" is the "good" one, and vice versa.

What do you think?