11.   During the war, they used U.N. forces as human shields to prevent NATO bombing of certain targets.

12.   Dusan Petkovic, a teacher, said it was an insult to the dead to suggest they were used as human shields for Yugoslav troops.

13.   For all their cruelty, competitiveness and anger, they remain at his side by choice and end up forming a kind of human shield.

14.   Forming a human shield, police whisked the Suns star to safety inside America West Arena.

15.   He also confirmed accusations that Croatian forces had used Danish peacekeepers as human shields during an operation, although those peacekeepers were later released unharmed.

16.   Haynes left that field with a human shield created by his teammates as his only protection.

17.   He said that a soldier had been arrested in connection with the episode in which peacekeepers were used as human shields.

18.   He saw buildings set aflame, and people corralled and used as human shields to prevent the Nigerian forces from firing.

19.   I was taken to work in a military camp and later put along the front lines as a human shield.

20.   Instead of holding fire, the Serbs began seizing U.N. troops on Friday as hostages and as human shields.