A Canadian man reportedly held for eight months by rebels in Syria is now free.<br/> <br />Video from Syrian state TV shows Carl Campeau, a legal adviser to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, speaking with the Syrian Foreign Ministry.<br/> <br />Campeau disappeared in February while working in the Golan Heights.<br/> <br />State media did not clarify how Campeau's release was secured.<br/> <br />The UNDOF has about 1,000 peacekeepers and civilian staff in the area.<br/> <br />The agency has been monitoring the ceasefire zone since 1974.<br/> <br />Recent threats from Syria's two-and-a-half-year civil war have forced participating countries to pull out some of their peacekeepers.
