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13-08-04, 18:37
The British journalist kidnapped on Thursday from a hotel in the Iraqi city of Basra has been released.
Freelancer James Brandon, 23, was taken to the Basra office of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr and freed on Friday.
He thanked Mr Sadr's aides for working for his release and said once his kidnappers had known he was a journalist, he had been "treated well".
Mr Brandon was kidnapped by 30 masked gunmen from his hotel room in the southern Iraqi city on Thursday night.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3563032.stm)
Freelancer James Brandon, 23, was taken to the Basra office of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr and freed on Friday.
He thanked Mr Sadr's aides for working for his release and said once his kidnappers had known he was a journalist, he had been "treated well".
Mr Brandon was kidnapped by 30 masked gunmen from his hotel room in the southern Iraqi city on Thursday night.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3563032.stm)