Roy Hallums is aboard a plane and headed back to the US. Welcome home Roy!

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Roy Hallums, the American businessman who was freed in Iraq this week after being held hostage for 10 months, is on his way back to the United States.

The U-S military says Hallums has boarded a plane from an Air Force base north of Baghdad. No further information on his travel plans were provided. He has family in Southern California.

The Jawa Report has more.

A friend of Roy's from Baghdad, 'Hussein', possibly the last man to see him before he was taken hostage, told the following to the BBC upon learning of Roy's release. A friend from the FBI called him and said, "Sit down and don't cry. We have Roy. He is alive."

"No-one seemed to mention him or to care. It's so unfair." He continued.

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