1.   Al-Faran has been condemned by many Western nations, especially when it beheaded a fifth hostage, a Norwegian tourist, soon after the kidnappings began.

2.   Al-Faran decapitated a fifth hostage, a Norwegian, soon after the kidnappings began.

3.   But since the kidnappings began, the U.S. Embassy has barred its staffers from traveling to Kashmir without its permission.

4.   For weeks after the kidnappings began, Al-Faran spoke with Indian officials nearly every day on the telephone or a shortwave radio.

5.   Several days after the kidnappings began, a fifth hostage, John Childs of the United States, escaped.

6.   Soon after the kidnappings began, a sixth hostage, John Childs of the United States, escaped from his captors.

7.   The kidnapping began when the man forced two young women into his car in the Belgian town of Hasselt Wednesday night, apparently after leaving a disco there.

8.   The kidnapping began when the man forced two young women into his car in the Belgian town of Hasselt, apparently after leaving a disco there.