41.   But the house was vacant, and no civilians were killed.

42.   But Specter said Saddam was in another category, noting that it would be justified to bomb Iraq and kill Iraqi civilians.

43.   Clinton would have faced deep criticism at home and abroad had he dispatched US pilots on military strikes that were likely to kill Iraqi civilians.

44.   Commander Selim added that a Taliban rocket had killed two civilians and wounded two others when it hit the village of Mahmoud Raqy the previous day.

45.   Criticizing such actions on the basis that the West looks the other way when Russia and China kill their civilians while rooting out rebels sounds more self-righteous than realistic.

46.   Days before, a tractor rolled over an antitank land mine on this stretch of death road, killing four civilians.

47.   During those operations, Serbian civilians were killed, villages were burned to the ground and several hundred thousand Serbs were forced to flee.

48.   Each time the guerrillas have struck, the army has retaliated, often killing unarmed civilians in their efforts to flush out the enemy.

49.   Even if few civilians are killed by allied bombs, they say, the action will create millions more Afghan refugees.