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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World |
 | | Nearly all kidnappings staged by the Abu Sayyaf in the past have ended up with payments of so-called "board and lodging" expenses incurred on the captives, the unofficial term used by the Muslim rebel group for ransom. |
 | | Others in the list included Columbia which topped the list with 979 kidnappings for ransom cases, Mexico with 402, former Soviet Union with 105, Brazil with 51, the Philippines with 39, Nigeria with 24, India with 17, Ecuador and Venezuela 12 each and South Africa with 10 cases. |
 | | The latest case, says Wall Street Journal involves 21 foreign tourists and resort workers kidnapped by a Muslim guerrilla group from a Malaysian diving resort and held in the Philippines, adding in 1998, four engineers were kidnapped for ransom in Chechnya and beheaded. |
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