On the worst days, kidnapped Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni couldn't stop himself from picturing how he feared his monthslong jungle captivity in the southern Philippines would end: with his decapitated head in a basket.
Gaunt, exhausted and barely able to walk due to a hernia, the 62-year-old engineer did not believe his al-Qaida-linked captors when they told him he would finally be freed _ until a government negotiator showed up Sunday morning to escort him away.
Vagni was reunited with his wife and daughter Sunday in Manila. After six months of fraught negotiations and periodic pursuit by the Philippine army, his Abu Sayyaf captors released him after the government …
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