11.   She told police about being held in a padlocked cabin that matched the remote dwelling described by the San Antonio kidnapping victim.

12.   The FARC has used the sanctuary to train troops, stash kidnapping victims and grow coca, the raw material for cocaine.

13.   The families of kidnapping victims marched with banners, teen-agers scrawled PAZ, or peace, on their faces, and the samba schools sent their percussion sections.

14.   The guerrillas finance their war by demanding ransom for kidnapping victims and by providing protection to drug traffickers and farmers who grow coca, the raw material for cocaine.

15.   The rationale is that vulnerability leads to trust, a lesson all too familiar to kidnap victims.

16.   The Russian Caucasus region where Vladikavkaz is located is awash with weapons and teeming with murderous hostage-taking gangs, who kidnap their victims for ransom.

17.   The rebels are also accused of forcefully recruiting teen-age fighters who lived in the zone and using the territory as a safe place to hold kidnapping victims.

18.   This enabled him to tune in to the several national weekly programs that broadcast personal messages of support from family and friends to kidnapping victims.

19.   Perhaps that explains why the hostage spent only a couple of days in captivity while many kidnapping victims usually disappear for months.

20.   Prosecutors announced Tuesday they have jailed a Mexican physician on charges that he amputated the fingers of kidnap victims to pressure their families to pay ransom.