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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP)--Roy Hallums, an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq and held for more than 300 days, says during a TV interview that his captives used beatings and a gun to force him to criticize the U.S. President in a video released to the public. Hallums, 57, describes his experience as a captured civilian contractor with " 60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl on a segment that will air in the U.S. Sunday on CBS. It is the first interview Hallums has given since he was rescued by coalition troops from a 4-foot-high crawl space under a farmhouse on...

CNN is reporting that Roy Hallums, an American contractor kidnapped in Iraq on 11/1/2004, has been freed. Details to follow....

The daughter of a man held hostage in Iraq for more than seven months has arranged to have an Arabic-language flier circulated in Baghdad offering a $40,000 reward. Amanda Hallums, 25, of Cordova, Tenn., said Friday that she resorted to the public appeal to the streets of Iraq because she remains confident her father, Roy Hallums, 56, is still alive. "I still have hope," she said. Hallums was taken hostage when a compound in Baghdad where he lived and worked was overrun by insurgents on Nov. 1. He had been working with a Saudi Arabian company that provided food to...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An insurgent video distributed in Iraq (news - web sites) and seen by Reuters appears to show an American citizen being held hostage by militants and pleading for his life as a gun is held to his head. The 60-second video, seen on Tuesday, shows a man identifying himself as U.S. citizen Roy Hallams sitting against a black background with his legs crossed, anxiously rubbing his hands together as he appeals to the camera. "I have been arrested by a resistance group in Iraq. I'm asking for help because my life is in danger because it's been...