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Your support makes all the difference.A British journalist held for two months by kidnappers in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was rescued today by Iraqi forces sweeping through the city in a crackdown on militants, the Iraqi military said.
Richard Butler, a photographer on assignment for the US network CBS, had been kidnapped from a hotel in the centre of the southern city in February.
"He is in good health. He is fine. He's here with me," Iraqi Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Mohammed al-Askari told Reuters by telephone from Basra.
Butler's rescue was an apparent victory for Iraqi forces, embarrassed last month by a hasty crackdown against militants in Basra that triggered fighting across the south and Baghdad while failing to dislodge masked militiamen from the streets.
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