BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A French humanitarian worker who had been held hostage in Iraq for more than a month was freed Saturday during a joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation, the military said.
Bernard Planche, who worked for AACCESS on water projects in the country, was being held in a farmhouse west of Baghdad.
Conducting a joint search operation in the area, U.S. and Iraqi military came upon the farmhouse, and Planche's captors fled, leaving him free to walk away.
Somehow the BBC doesn't see it that way.
A French engineer who has been held hostage in Iraq since December has been freed, Iraqi security officials and the French government have said.
Bernard Planche, 52, was released at a US checkpoint near Abu Ghraib jail, west of Baghdad, on Saturday.
The Guardian has a third version of events.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A French engineer taken hostage in Iraq last month was found alive in a car, Iraqi police said Sunday.
Bernard Planche was found Saturday night after several men fled the car just before reaching a checkpoint in the western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, said Maj. Falah al-Mohammadawi.
Good thing MSM has all those fact checkers. At least the poor guy is safe now.
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