Crossfire!

Crossfire GTK Client V2

Charlie, don't shoot! The kids are in the crossfire!

Client for Crossfire, a multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game

Investigators tells CBS Philadelphia it appears there was crossfire between multiple gunmen.

There are areas where action can be strengthened immediately for civilians in the crossfire.

We would have 13,000 humanitarian workers caught in the crossfire and, of course, operations would be paralysed.

Crossfire ensued as the officers sought to defend themselves and immobilize the pickup by shooting at its tyres.

Achieving this goal will be no small feat. China s economy is caught in the crossfire of structural and cyclical nbsp headwinds.

56. On 16 September 1995, two WFP food aid monitors were caught in a crossfire when the locality of Panthou was attacked.

As a result, the unarmed and unprotected staff of UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies were often caught in crossfire or even directly attacked.

Brazil agrees that there is a need for more reliable and predictable resources to provide assistance to people in need, including civilians caught in the crossfire.

Information received by United Nations officials suggested that the growing tensions between various parties in the State would place humanitarian staff at risk of being caught in the crossfire or directly targeted.

62. The indigenous and Afro Colombian populations are seriously affected by violence, trapped as they are in the crossfire between the army, the drug traffickers, the guerrilla movements and the paramilitary groups.

7. For all the children deliberately massacred or caught in crossfire or maimed by anti personnel landmines, many more have been deprived of their physical, mental and emotional needs in societies at war.

The disturbing rise in sectarian violence in Iraq with almost daily, deadly suicide bombing attacks in May and June starkly illustrate the extreme vulnerability of civilians targeted in direct terrorist attacks or caught in crossfire.

The consequences of war are encountered everywhere, nowhere more so than for those caught in the crossfire. We met the niece and son of a farmer caught in the buffer zone between the Israeli border and Gaza.

We are able to deploy large missions, large humanitarian operations and a large humanitarian presence in some areas of conflict, to the benefit of some populations caught in the crossfire and in endless vicious circles of violence.

There is today a much greater awareness that the Security Council must ensure effective participation in decision making by those members whose nationals, military or civilian, will find themselves in the crossfire of the conflicts over which the Council is deliberating.

As always, the main victims are civilians caught in the crossfire. The renewed fighting, coming eight months after a promising peace initiative known as the Goma Agreement, means more civilian deaths and little chance of normality returning to the eastern part of Congo.

I must tell this Assembly that my sorrow is great because so many Congolese children, men and women have fallen every day since 5 June 1997, under the crossfire of shells in the civil war that has cast a pall over my country.

Libya s civil war placed the vulnerability of migrants in stark relief, with hundreds of thousands caught in the crossfire. And, while Libyans were badly affected by the war, foreign workers were even more vulnerable, as they were largely left out of schemes aimed at protecting civilians.

57. Between late November and early December 1996, the number of displaced persons in Burundi increased suddenly and sharply, mainly because of the authorities apos policy of moving certain population groups from the collines into camps and because of the intensification of the fighting in which civilians reportedly found themselves caught in the crossfire between the rebels and the army.

Kidnappings, injury and loss of life have become too common in this line of work. Humanitarian workers are not only being killed in the crossfire they are now often specifically targeted for both political and economic gain. The culture of impunity that enables such acts must end. The United States has been encouraged by the increased discussion of the need to protect humanitarian workers.

Because the Bush administration, as its officials repeatedly insist, placed the installation of democratic, human rights oriented regimes, by force if necessary, at the core of US foreign policy, those who see only aggressive imperialism in America s interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq view human rights in a more skeptical light. In a sense, the UN, Annan, and the human rights activists who have been perhaps his biggest backers, are caught in the crossfire.