1.   Among the victims are tourists seized at a diving resort in neighboring Malaysia.

2.   And they found three room keys from the Malaysian diving resort.

3.   Six Malaysians from the diving resort were freed earlier.

4.   Flights normally bringing in tourists to the mysterious Borneo rain forest and diving resorts have been crammed with governing party officials in business suits.

5.   Jolo is about an hour by boat from the Malaysian island of Sipadan, the diving resort where the tourists were kidnapped Easter Sunday.

6.   Most of the hostages had been held four months after being captured at the Malaysian diving resort of Sipadan.

7.   On Monday, the rebels released their first European captive, an ailing German woman from among the diving resort group.

8.   One group is holding American Jeffrey Schilling and Filipino Roland Ulla, who was kidnapped from a Malaysian diving resort in April.

9.   Since the Sipadan diving resort abduction, the Abu Sayyaf has also abducted several other people.

10.   The decision came after two raids by Abu Sayyaf rebels from the southern Philippines on two separate Malaysian diving resorts.