1.   On Wednesday, just one step behind them, the military seized a bamboo hut where the foreign hostages had been held.

2.   The heads of four foreign hostages were found this month in a sack on a roadside.

3.   Abu Sayyaf repeatedly threatens to kill foreign hostages but has not yet done so.

4.   Andang was worried about a military assault if all the foreign hostages are freed, Aventajado said.

5.   Anderson eventually spent nearly seven years in captivity, becoming the foreign hostage held longest by Shiite militiamen.

6.   Aventajado said Andang had been worried about a military assault if all the foreign hostages are freed.

7.   Both negotiated last year when the Abu Sayyaf released foreign hostages for reported millions of dollars in ransom.

8.   Both negotiated last year when the Abu Sayyaf released foreign hostages taken from a Malaysian resort, reportedly for millions of dollars in ransom.

9.   Chechen kidnappers beheaded four foreign hostages because they feared capture and wanted to prevent their victims from serving as witnesses, an official in the breakaway territory said today.

10.   Chechen kidnappers beheaded the four foreign hostages because they feared capture and wanted to prevent their victims from serving as witnesses, an official in the breakaway territory said.