21.   On Thursday, three men were arrested in connection with the shooting of an American missionary couple in southern Haiti during a robbery late Tuesday, Schrager said.

22.   Sibago is off the coast of Basilan island, where the Abu Sayyaf is holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse.

23.   The Abu Sayyaf is holding American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham of Wichita, Kansas, and Filipino nurse Deborah Yap on southern Basilan island.

24.   The Abu Sayyaf are currently holding hostage an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse.

25.   The group is holding a Kansas missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham, and earlier killed Guillermo Sobero of Corona, California, and several Filipino hostages.

26.   The guerrillas have been holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan for nearly a year.

27.   The group has been holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse for the last eight months on the southern Philippine island of Basilan.

28.   The group has been holding hostage U.S. missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burham and Filipino nurse Deobrah Yap for the past seven months on southern Basilan island near Zamboanga.

29.   The group is holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse on Basilan, the last hostages from a kidnapping spree that began last May.

30.   The group, notorious for kidnappings and beheadings, is holding an American missionary couple and Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan island.