31.   This is important because the geographic coordinates of targets are checked against the databases to try to avoid civilian casualties.

32.   U.S. sources say American troops would attack at night to take advantage of infrared night scopes and other technology the Haitians do not possess and to avoid civilian casualties.

33.   Troops had been ordered to avoid civilian casualties and have refrained from entering villages, but they have shelled villages with tank and mortar fire.

34.   Were Palestinian civilians indiscriminately killed or did Israeli soldiers go to lengths that put themselves at greater risk to avoid civilian casualties?

35.   With thousands of ethnic Albanians trudging away from the border area, NATO needs to take special care to avoid civilian casualties.

36.   Police said they held Rantisi responsible for the violence, but that they left the scene because they wanted to avoid casualties among civilians.

37.   Police said they withdrew because they wanted to avoid casualties.

38.   Pilots at a Black Hawk base near Medellin said they have strict instructions to avoid civilian casualties.

39.   A regional police chief on Tuesday defended the shooting to death of civilians during a religious riot in eastern Indonesia, arguing that it avoided more casualties.

40.   A top aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat voiced support Friday for the allied anti-terrorist air campaign in Afghanistan but urged the United States to avoid civilian casualties.