51.   Pentagon planners Sunday were hoping to remove them as a threat by relying heavily on highly accurate precision-guided bombs to minimize the chances of civilian deaths.

52.   Perry argued that a pullout would mean tens of thousands of civilian deaths.

53.   Shahab blamed foreign fighters in the Taliban for civilian deaths, and he scoffed at the idea that Pashtun tribes would embrace any pan-Islamic ideology.

54.   Shelton also explained the potential for civilian deaths and destruction of nonmilitary property.

55.   Still, it may prove impossible to avoid chaos among the civilian population or civilian deaths.

56.   Still other chemical and biological weapons stockpiles could cause widespread civilian deaths if bombed.

57.   Sympathetic residents of Ingushetia immediately tried to halt Russian tank columns rolling east into Chechnya Sunday, leading to at least four civilian deaths.

58.   Taliban accounts of civilian deaths typically are impossible to verify because the Taliban restricts the access of journalists and aid workers in much of Afghanistan.

59.   That fruitless quest cost hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths without generating an additional square yard of Serbian soil.

60.   The carnage on Tuesday will drive up the civilian death tally for May.