21.   Iraq prepared for the multinational military confrontation by holding foreign residents as human shields.

22.   Israel, on our southern border, employs Christian Lebanese youths as their human shields from attacks by Muslim Lebanese youths whom Iran employs as their human bullets.

23.   It has forced the Serbs to disperse their troops, hide their armor and artillery and perhaps now to use kidnapped Albanian civilians as human shields.

24.   Iraqi news agencies said the nation was ready for war and that citizens had volunteered to be placed around potential targets as human shields.

25.   It particularly cited the use of human shields.

26.   Majewska piled Danika between, and she lay on top, forming a human shield.

27.   Mr. Milosevic apparently wants to use them as hostages and human shields.

28.   Most of them stayed inside, apparently intending to serve as a human shield, which caused consternation at the top levels of the Israeli government.

29.   Most suspect the Serbs hoped NATO would think the factory was still used by the police and bomb the human shields.

30.   Muslimova said the men of her village were still there, virtual human shields for the rebels.