1.   Kidnappers take advantage of that, basing themselves in one state and operating in another.

2.   Kidnappers take victims from one automatic teller machine to another, withdrawing the maximum amount of cash each day until the accounts are empty.

3.   Rumyantseva said that the presence of Russian troops in Chechnya has made it harder to for kidnappers to take their captives across borders.

4.   The victim, Jack J. Teich, was released unharmed after the kidnappers took the ransom from a locker at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and slipped a police dragnet.

5.   Police said the kidnappers had been taking the diplomat and his family to Laos as the first step in abducting them back to North Korea.

6.   A tribal spokesman said earlier that the kidnappers had taken the hostages to the Barb region of Jawf province.

7.   After receiving the money, the kidnappers took the four men captive, Pinol said.

8.   Army spokesman Col. Jose Garcia Estrada said the kidnappers took the victims across the Coco River into Honduras.

9.   He speculated that the kidnappers probably took the hostages as bargaining chips.

10.   In the latest case, the kidnappers took the babies from maternity wards in southern Vietnam when the mothers were asleep or inattentive, Laodong said.