This CTV.ca story has video attached of Amanda Lindhout being interviewed by CTV News Channel hours after she gained her freedom.
Her release came exactly one month before Christmas (I wrote this on Christmas Eve of last year - Amanda Lindhout still isn't home). This time, she will be home with her family.
But that leaves two cases outstanding:
- Beverly Giesbrecht, a convert to Islam who is being held in northern Pakistan
- blogger Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan, being held in his native Iran
For BBC journalist Alan Johnston, his time as a captive in the Gaza
Strip reminds him of the adage that freedom is like air -- you only
really notice it when it's gone.