1.   There was even some laughter when one of the thieves picked up a little girl to use as a human shield.

2.   UN military officials acknowledged that their troops fired on civilians they said were being used as human shields by gunmen who ambushed the patrol.

3.   Then, however, began the shelling by the Serb forces who accused the Muslims of using the troops as a human shield.

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

5.   And Koshman charged that the rebels were preventing some civilians from leaving so that they could use them as human shields.

6.   Bassuener also fears that unarmed observers on the ground in Kosovo might be used as human shields by Serbs should NATO threaten future strikes.

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

8.   By taking U.N. peacekeepers hostage and using them as human shields, Dr. Radovan Karadzic and the other Bosnian Serb leaders have defined themselves as outside law and civilization.

9.   Carter killed six of them, captured the other two and used them as human shields to get back across the open field to his unit.

10.   Dallal denied that soldiers had used Palestinians as human shields, saying they had on occasion ordered Palestinians to guide them in their searches.