31.   They say he confessed to being the mastermind behind the plot to kidnap MAG workers for ransom.

32.   Three Italian aid workers were kidnapped in Chechnya where Russians and Chechen separatists are shoring up an agreement to bring peace to the breakaway republic.

33.   Two Spanish telephone company workers were kidnapped on Friday, said Jose Alfredo Escobar, head of the government anti-kidnapping office.

34.   Two Venezuelan oil company workers were kidnapped in the same area last Wednesday.

35.   United Nations special envoy Francis Okello flew into this battle-torn capital Wednesday to plan an emergency aid mission and call on fighters to release kidnapped aid workers.

36.   Four aid workers have been kidnapped in Chechnya, the Russian agency Interfax reported Sunday without citing its sources.

37.   In November, eight railway workers were kidnapped by the NLFT and were later released after the railway contractors reportedly paid eight million rupees in ransom.

38.   Three Canadian aid workers have been kidnapped in Niger, the radio reported Monday.

39.   The coordinator in Goma of the charity Action Aid, Philippe Gauthier said he did not believe the aid worker had been kidnapped.