101.   Army commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama said his soldiers could not stop the armed rebels because they were using unarmed supporters as human shields.

102.   Arana said he believed the suspected rebels wanted to use the people in the school as human shields to fend off any attack by government troops.

103.   Arana said the suspected rebels apparently wanted to use the people in the school as a human shield to fend off any attack by government troops.

104.   Another, Niyamuddin Amrakhov, said hostages were also forced to dig trenches, carry ammunition and act as human shields for their Chechen kidnappers during the Russian assault.

105.   At the height of the crisis, Saddam opened the doors of his palaces to civilians, who acted as human shields to protect the palaces from attacks.

106.   At the time, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan accused Baghdad of using Iraqi people as human shields.

107.   Barricaded in houses, they were shooting at vehicles driving by and using elderly villages as human shields, it said.

108.   Authorities accused the Chechens of using hostages as human shields.

109.   Bosnian Serbs locked in a deadly, escalating confrontation with the world chained peacekeepers to potential NATO targets Friday as human shields against more airstrikes.

110.   Bosnian Serbs on Tuesday defied the gathering might of Western powers, repudiating outside authority, threatening a U.N. official and keeping peacekeepers chained up as human shields.