1.   The kidnap target stopped, only to be grabbed by the reporter, now flourishing an imitation pistol.

2.   Foreign Minister Maria Emma Mejia Monday urged foreigners visiting Colombia to avoid certain regions, warning that they could become kidnap targets.

3.   Foreign Minister Maria Emma Mejia urged foreigners visiting Colombia to avoid certain regions, warning that they could become kidnap targets.

4.   He warned that civilians in Basilan, including children, were being used by the Abu Sayyaf to spy on journalists as potential kidnap targets.

5.   Even in the Philippines, a Catholic bastion, Christian priests and missionaries are frequent kidnap targets of armed Moslem groups in the south.