21.   Jiang endorsed the international effort to combat terrorism, but publicly cautioned the United States not to target civilians or to drop bombs on the wrong targets.

22.   NATO and the Pentagon acknowledged that NATO warplanes had attacked a military convoy in the same area but said they had not targeted civilians.

23.   NATO claimed that it did not target Serbian civilians.

24.   One of the fundamental principles of that body of law is that combatants cannot target civilians.

25.   Russia claims that it does not target Chechen civilians.

26.   Serbian forces, by contrast, have deliberately targeted civilians in their brutal march across Kosovo.

27.   Suggesting that support for the Taliban was thin, Ahmad said people would be happy if military targets were hit but sentiment could quickly shift if civilians were targeted.

28.   Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists specifically target civilians.

29.   That understanding prohibited each side from targeting civilians.

30.   The mightiest superpower in history, it seems, has suddenly been laid naked by terrorists willing to use commercial aircraft as weapons in a war that targets civilians.