Roy Hallums
Roy Hallums (born June 23, 1948) is an American general contractor, contractor who was kidnapping, kidnapped in Iraq on November 1, 2004. He was held in Iraq for 311 days and freed on September 7, 2005. Life Hallums grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1971 he married Susan Hallums and they had a daughter, Carrie Anne. The couple divorced in 2003, but remained good friends. Hallums had been working in Saudi Arabia since 1993 and eventually came to work for the Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Co. After the outbreak of 2003 invasion of Iraq, war with Iraq, Hallums went to Baghdad where his company provided food for the Iraqi Army. After being released from captivity, he settled down in Memphis. Captivity On November 1, 2004, twenty gunmen stormed the compound where Hallums and his colleagues were working in the upscale Mansour district of Baghdad. Hallums was taken hostage along with Roberto Tarongoy of the Philippines, Inus Dewari of Nepal and three Iraqis. Dewari and the Ira ...
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