Missing but not missing reporter saved

Phil Sands is a lucky guy. He is a British freelance reporter who has gone to Iraq multiple times to cover the war. During his most recent visit, he was kidnapped. The only problem is that nobody even knew he was missing. Sands' lucky day came when American troops broke into the house where he was being kept to arrest his kidnappers, but not for kidnapping him. It seems the American troops' actions were independent of his kidnapping, and they seemed surprised to find him. Sands will probably not get a homecoming wrought with emotion when he gets back to Britain, as his parents did not have to live with the knowledge that their son was missing, but he is quite lucky to be alive.