American officials say, for example, that President Saddam Hussein has intentionally placed much of his military equipment around quintessentially civilian sites: parks, mosques, hospitals and schools.

In the United States, no military or civilian site is believed to have emitted nearly as much radioactive iodine as Hanford.

Under the compromise, the computers have quietly been moved from a military site to a civilian site within the city: a building used by Sberbank, a Government bank.

He said bombs had hit military barracks and Government offices, but charged that others had fallen on "hospitals, private homes, schools and other civilian sites."

However, excavations in 1993 located two successive forts at adjoining Boroughbridge, so 1st century finds at modern Aldborough may come from a related civilian site.

It is the only known military and civilian site established by British forces on American soil following the War of 1812.

Some bombs landed off-target, striking diplomatic and civilian sites in Tripoli, while the French embassy was only narrowly missed.

"It's appalling that a civilian site was targeted," a local lawyer told me.

That concealment turns civilian sites into potential military targets which, if destroyed, could damage the United States in the eyes of other nations.

In a report released Thursday, German officials said much of the assistance was restricted to identifying civilian sites so they would not be attacked by mistake.