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Shiite and Sunni militias terrorized mixed neighborhoods, leaving unidentified bodies in empty lots and turning kidnapping into a lucrative business.

Al-Qaeda has turned kidnapping into an industry of sorts—one operative has even written a how-to guide.

In Syria and Iraq, Isis terrorists have turned kidnapping and the sale of women and girls into recruitment and fundraising tools.

"The Abu Sayyaf has turned kidnapping-for-ransom into a cottage industry," said the Rappler story, written by Maria Ressa, a journalist with deep experience with insurgencies in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Many were abducted from their villages in the middle of the night by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that turned kidnapped boys as young as 5 into soldiers and girls into sexual slaves.

But it recovered, and at its peak in the 1990s boasted an army of 5,000, after turning to kidnapping, extortion of oil companies and involvement in the drug trade.

The Taliban have also turned to kidnapping to raise money.

There are relatively few programs to teach young men who may turn to kidnapping any other skill.

He resigned after militants turned to kidnapping and violence to express dissatisfaction with the Palestinian Authority's leadership.

In fact, a majority of incidents are carried out by small-time criminals who turned to kidnapping after other types of crime became less lucrative, said Mr. Kahn of the United Nations.

But in a way it is not surprising that members of the former government should turn to kidnapping, Mr. Dhia said, because Mr. Hussein's security agents abducted tens of thousands of people for political reasons.