1.   Most are being held by gangs seeking ransom.

2.   The gang then held guards at gunpoint while freeing Maniero.

3.   The gang often holds the illegal aliens in safehouses until they work off their passage.

4.   The Pentagon gang is still holding a South Korean man.

5.   Their gangs sometime hold migrants for ransom or force them into prostitution.

6.   The Pentagon gang is also holding Italian Roman Catholic priest Giuseppe Pierantoni, abducted in another part of Mindanao island in October.

7.   The Pentagon gang is also holding Italian Roman Catholic priest Giuseppe Pierantoni, who was abducted in another part of Mindanao island in October.

8.   The Pentagon gang is still holding captive Italian Catholic priest Giuseppe Pierantoni, who they kidnapped in Zambanga del Sur province in October.

9.   Philippine troops have stepped up a manhunt for a kidnap gang holding a South Korean hostage on the main southern island of Mindanao, the military said Thursday.

10.   The gang also holds an Italian Roman Catholic priest, Giuseppe Pierantoni, abducted from another area of the south in October.