31.   The target of the exercise, the Abu Sayyaf is holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse.

32.   They are still holding a missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham of Wichita, Kansas.

33.   They said the Christian missionary couple, longtime residents of the Philippines who hail from Wichita, Kan., were OK, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Edilberto Adan said.

34.   Thousands of Filipino troops are waging an offensive against Abu Sayyaf rebels, who are holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan.

35.   Following up kidnapping of American missionary couple, Italian priest and South Korean businessman in the southern Philippines.

36.   His unit held US Christian missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham for a year until a bloody rescue attempt early this month.

37.   In Basilan, roughly the size of Los Angeles, the Abu Sayyaf is holding hostage a US Christian missionary couple.

38.   In the southern Philippines officials said a US Christian missionary couple and an Italian Roman Catholic priest spent Christmas Day in the hands of separate kidnappers.

39.   A Philippines television station on Thursday aired new footage of a US Christian missionary couple held by Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrillas in the southern Philippines.

40.   A US missionary couple and a Filipino nurse are still being hostage by the group.