User blog comment:LITE992/No Civilians Will Die in Battlefield 3/@comment-1990578-20110902042942/@comment-64.228.215.112-20110904025255

There's an earthquake happening, maybe the civilians got evacuated. And you can complete "No Russian" without killing civilians (only because Makarov (the inventor of the pistol) and his buddies hog all the kills!) So it's like the AI was very smart enough to kill civilians, but then when the police come, the AI becomes stupid and decide to go into cover and you have to kill everyone with a gun! Like the attack could have been mentioned in a cutscene instead of being a level.