21.   NATO troops are protecting the buses.

22.   Prosecutors claim Mladic sent thousands of Muslims straight to the killing fields after overrunning the U.N. safe area, which Karremans troops were protecting.

23.   That means future food convoys might not need troops to protect them, Collins said.

24.   The other bill would enable Japanese troops to protect U.S. bases in Japan against terrorists.

25.   The NATO troops would protect the civilian population and disarm the KLA.

26.   The troops would protect UN soldiers on the ground, assist in their regrouping and help prevent other hostage-takings.

27.   The U.N. troops would protect humanitarian aid shipments and set up safe zones for refugees if ethnic slaughter worsens in Burundi, according to the U.N. proposal.

28.   The Zairian troops protect those who take shelter at Nyamitaba but they do nothing to stop the ethnic killing elsewhere, he added.

29.   The U.S.-trained troops have been protecting fumigation planes, which have been tasked with wiping out drug-producing crops protected by the rebels and paramilitaries.

30.   Turkey says the troops are protecting Turkish Cypriots.