1.   Rebels often abduct journalists for a day or two to pass along a message to be broadcast or given to the government.

2.   The KLA later confirmed it abducted the journalists from their car after they apparently took a wrong turn and strayed into rebel-held territory.

3.   The KLA said it abducted the journalists after they drove into rebel-held territory.

4.   The KLA said it had abducted the journalists after they drove into rebel-held territory.

5.   Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is dead, the State Department said, a month after the journalist was abducted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.

6.   ADDS Wall St Journal commcourt that abducted US journalist Daniel Pearl was dead and admitted responsibility for the kidnapping.

7.   An Algerian television journalist was abducted and murdered late Saturday, becoming the third reporter to be killed in less than a week by suspected Islamic militants.

8.   Unidentified gunmen Friday abducted a journalist working for the leading Pakistani daily, Dawn, police said.