61.  But he made only oblique references to the American and British strikes, saying Muslims would not support military action in which innocent people were killed.

62.  But his often high-handed style undercut the independence of the courts and Congress, and landed hundreds if not thousands of innocent people in prison.

63.  But Hutu leaders in Goma said Tutsi soldiers had also massacred hundreds of innocent people in their attempt to root out the guerrilla bands.

64.  But it is a brutal illustration of what can happen when innocent young people take up life on the streets of a big city.

65.  But it was religious fundamentalism that stirred those volatile forces into a chaotic stew and provided the excuse to slaughter thousands of innocent people.

66.  But later I came to believe that if some innocent people were killed, terrorism would be repeated.

67.  But in a region where sometimes thousands of people have the same name, innocent people are often seized.

68.  But Noorda and other friends insist that Wise, a man with an eighth-grade education, would have no part in a plan to harm innocent people.

69.  But it would be the same thing as is happening now and the innocent people would be killed.

70.  But others may belong to police informants or aides, or to other innocent people who have vanished.