51.   Some believe that Al-Faran is really the militant rebel group Harkat al-Ansar, which has kidnapped foreigners before.

52.   Speculation focused on the Abu Sayyaf, a brutal Muslim extremist group notorious for kidnapping foreigners.

53.   Somali gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped nine foreigners, including an American, in the capital, Mogadishu, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

54.   Swaths of Yemen are virtually ruled by tribesmen who kidnap foreigners to demand money or press for concessions from the government.

55.   The case involving the Poles marked the first time that the Bani Jabr tribe has kidnapped foreigners.

56.   The ELN has kidnapped foreigners and bombed pipelines carrying foreign-owned oil.

57.   The FARC is the largest of several guerrilla groups which have fought the government for decades, and which have gone on a spree of kidnapping foreigners.

58.   The guerrillas have kidnapped foreigners in the past, ransoming some and executing others.

59.   The guerrillas, who are fighting the central government, have kidnapped foreigners in the past, ransoming some and executing others.

60.   The rebels are notorious for kidnapping foreigners and are currently holding an American couple and a Filipino nurse in the nearby island of Basilan.