1.   Amid fears that the civilians might be used as human shields, the Pentagon said the refugees could complicate attacks on Yugoslav troops and tanks.

2.   But the LTTE, he asserted, places its camps close to villages to use Tamil civilians as human shields.

3.   However, Rumsfeld said Monday that administration officials had discussed the idea of using American civilians but only as monitors.

4.   Israel has insisted that Hezbollah was operating near the camp, using the civilians as a shield.

5.   It is a violation of the rule of law for the military to use civilians to mask their operations in war.

6.   Residents also claim some civilians were used as human shields.

7.   That could be accomplished, the commission argued, by using more civilians for administrative tasks and extracting productivity from the police union.

8.   Terrorists hide here, Israel contends, using the civilians who live here as shields and camouflage.

9.   That raises the prospect that gunmen could be using civilians for shields, as they appeared to do in Jenin.

10.   The Israelis charged that the Palestinian gunmen also used civilians for protection, refusing to let them leave buildings from which snipers were firing.