1.   Officials say the drug trade has been used to finance Islamic insurgencies in Central Asia.

2.   Opium processing and trafficking have been used by ethnic groups to finance insurgencies against the government.

3.   Rebels have increasingly turned to kidnapping for ransom to finance their insurgency, and Colombia leads the world in abductions, with more than four a day.

4.   Children are often forced to guard the oil and diamond fields that finance African insurgencies.

5.   Colombian guerrillas finance their insurgency in part by protecting drug laboratories and fields of coca and poppy, the raw materials for cocaine and heroin.

6.   Even before the killings, U.S. officials and lawmakers have been wary of contacts with the FARC, which partly finances its insurgency through kidnappings and drug trafficking.

7.   FARC is believed to be well-funded, financing its insurgency largely through kidnapping and by protecting drug traffickers.

8.   FARC units frequently kidnaps foreigners and demands ransom to finance its insurgency.

9.   Guerrillas partially finance their insurgency by protecting drug labs and fields of drug crops.

10.   In recent years, rebels have turned to kidnapping, extortion, and working for drug traffickers to finance their insurgency.