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Article: Burnham family says ransom paid to Abu Sayyaf group but guerrillas refused to release captives

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Dateline: MANILA, Philippines The family of two American missionaries abducted by Philippine Muslim extremists said in a television interview broadcast Thursday that the kidnappers received a ransom last March but didn't release the hostages.

"There was a ransom paid by somebody," said Felicia Burnham-Retchke, a sister of Martin Burnham, who was seized from a Philippine resort last May along with his wife, Gracia, and 18 other people by al-Qaida- linked Abu Sayyaf guerrillas.

"We don't have money to pay ransom as a family. Martin and Gracia don't have any funds ... to pay ransom. The mission there in the Philippines does not have any money," Felicia ...

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