"We arrested a few of the people trying to hurt honest, decent civilians."

But he echoed Western criticism that the Chechnya war hurts civilians.

Stopping shipments by oil tankers, the French say, might hurt only civilians.

We had no intention of hurting innocent civilians walking by or carting home their grains.

I also know that the Americans don't put air strikes or artillery in on civilians just to hurt civilians.

He said soldiers tried to avoid hurting civilians.

Freedom fighters are often called terrorists by their opponents if they hurt civilians.

Strikes on these targets carry a much larger risk of hurting or killing civilians.

It does not help the war against terrorism to hurt innocent civilians.

They hurt innocent civilians, require broad international enforcement and work best when backed up by effective inspection arrangements.