United Nations officers say that many of the weapons used to attack the road are hidden in civilian buildings here.
Artillery was positioned within the city and Germans started to fire at civilian buildings for over an hour.
It was outrageous of them because there were civilian buildings all about.
Others no longer have a good view, it said, because of civilian buildings built near them.
It would also reduce to rubble a civilian building whose leaders oversee food and crop production in Iraq.
Other game objects included civilian buildings, billboards and even animals.
Precisely from this period are the best preserved civilian buildings in the city.
According to official figures, more than 2,000 civilian buildings were destroyed as opposed to only 300 during the Italian siege.
And a cruiser's lasers could demolish a civilian building in seconds.
In the past they have shown off what appeared to be homes and other civilian buildings that had been hit.