1.   And Saudi Arabia publicly worried about the death of Afghan civilians.

2.   Afghan soldiers and officers, some wearing old Soviet-style wool uniforms and badges, kept foreign journalists and Afghan civilians away from the compound.

3.   For many Afghan civilians who thought that the Soviet period was as bad as things could get, the civil war has been misery compounded.

4.   Innocent Afghan civilians have paid a higher price, including those killed in mistaken American attacks.

5.   It is important, for humanitarian and practical reasons, to minimize the suffering of innocent Afghan civilians.

6.   Many Afghan civilians have been killed.

7.   Meanwhile, the Taliban has claimed that more U.S. bombs are killing Afghan civilians than its troops.

8.   No reliable overall casualty numbers exist, although some estimates say that hundreds of Afghan civilians have perished in misdirected strikes.

9.   Pentagon officials acknowledged Monday that the effort to inform the Afghan civilians of U.S. intentions had lagged behind the military operations part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

10.   Q. What do you think about the probable casualties among Afghan civilians?