Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo speaks beside freed American hostage Jeffrey Schilling during a meeting at the presidential house in Baguio city, north of Manila April 13, 2001. Philippine troops rescued Schilling from more than seven months in captivity after a gunbattle on Thursday with the fundamentalist Abu Sayyaf guerrillas who have held him on the nearby island of Jolo, about 960 km (600 miles) south of Manila./Romeo Ranoco (Reuters)

Freed U.S. hostage Jeffrey Schilling greets an unidentified U.S. official on the tarmac of a military airbase in Manila on April 13, 2001 after being flown there from the southern island of Jolo. Schilling was rescued from over seven months' captivity with the Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels on April 12 after a gunbattle between Philippine marines and the guerrillas in the interior of Jolo. Reuters/ Alex de la Rosa (Reuters)