11.   He was jailed in India for kidnapping foreign tourists in Kashmir.

12.   It was the third time Western tourists have been kidnapped in the past year.

13.   Its fighters have previously crossed into Malaysian waters to kidnap tourists.

14.   Kidnapping foreign tourists is also common in Yemen, where leaders of impoverished areas take them hostage to press their demands for state funds or services.

15.   Jolo is about an hour by boat from the Malaysian island of Sipadan, the diving resort where the tourists were kidnapped Easter Sunday.

16.   Large parts of the country are run by lawless clans who frequently kidnap tourists to press demands for better schools, roads and health services.

17.   Moussa, reportedly armed with a handgun and an explosive, kidnapped the tourists Monday near Luxor.

18.   One of the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group that kidnapped the tourists claimed responsibility in a satellite telephone call to a local radio station Monday.

19.   Security forces thwarted two attempts by armed tribesmen to kidnap French tourists in Yemen last week, a weekly newspaper reported Monday.

20.   Saeed had been jailed in India for kidnapping Western tourists.