." >> the missionaries along with another american, californian guillermo sobero were ordered to board>> they took advantage of the tourist trade. >> some of them had masks on and just armed to the teeth. and when they had gotten all of us in the boat, then they began to shouting allah akbar, god is great. that is when we knew who had us, and it was the abu saayaf. >> the primary means of raising money is kidnapping that. they'll kidnap local citizens for just a few thousand pesoes but they will look for larger targets, mostly westerners and americans to help them raise hundreds of millions of dollars of ransom money. >> never the philippines knows about the abu saayaf and they chop off people's headand we kn were in big trouble. >> for five agonizing days the overloaded boat with the hostages traversed the sulu sea until they reached a island of steep mountains and dense jungle. >> we thought that when we got to the island that the cell phones would work, and the concessions would be made by the philippine government, and that we would all go home. >> but the nightmares were beginning

." >> the missionaries along with another american, californian guillermo sobero were ordered to board a speedboat. >> they took advantage of the tourist trade. >> some of them had masks on and just armed to the teeth. and when they had gotten all of us in the boat, then they began to shouting allah akbar, god is great. that is when we knew who had us, and it was the abu saayaf. >> the primary means of raising money is kidnapping that. they'll kidnap local citizens for just a few thousand pesoes but they will look for larger targets, mostly westerners and americans to help them raise hundreds of millions of dollars of ransom money. >> never the philippines knows about the abu saayaf and they chop off people's heads and burn villages, and we knew that we were in big trouble. >> for five agonizing days the overloaded boat with the hostages traversed the sulu sea until they reached a island of steep mountains and dense jungle. >> we thought that when we got to the island that the cell phones would work, and the concessions would be made by the philippine government, and that we would all