41.   The rebels abducted Perez more than two-years ago.

42.   The rebels often abduct children in their attacks and then use the boys for child soldiers and the girls as sex slaves and servants, according to U.N. reports.

43.   Two soldiers were wounded and the rebels abducted three civilians, he said.

44.   U.N. sources told reporters in Monrovia Thursday that they had pulled out of Tubmanburg Thursday because armed rebels had abducted civilians at a food distribution center.

45.   Two Swedish tourists and a New Zealander have not been seen since August, when the rebels abducted another group of tourists.

46.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the family of a Taiwanese businessman in the southern Philippines, where suspected Muslim rebels abducted an Italian missionary a day earlier, police said Thursday.

47.   Catholic church officials on Friday cast doubt on official reports here that seven nuns abducted by rebels in the north of the country on Wednesday had been released.

48.   Earlier Friday, the rebels abducted three people from a bus and shot dead two of them.

49.   The rebels regularly abduct villagers and force them to become members of their guerrilla army.

50.   They were then taken by boat to the southern island of Basilan, where the rebels later abducted several locals in a raid on a hospital and church.