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ANBAR PROVINCE — In the endless deserts of Iraq, the insurgency attempts to hide weapons for future use. Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, is there to find them. Scouts and Light Armored Vehicle crewmen with Charlie Company, nicknamed ‘Gunfighter,’ searched the deep, dark corners of western Anbar province in one of the key areas known for hidden weapons: the old Iraqi military bunkers at H2 airfield. “It’s a preventative measure to cut off the insurgency from many hiding areas for weapons,” said Lance Cpl. Jeremy A. Pratt, a scout with Charlie Company. “The reconnaissance...

Bunkers in vogue as cold war fears rise By Bojan Pancevski in Vienna, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:55am BST 17/06/2007 It may sound a lot of money for an unsightly steel cube, but Germans are queuing up to pay £60,000 for the latest addition to the garden: a prefabricated nuclear bunker. With fears of terrorism, natural disasters and a cold war revival on the rise, a German company has tapped into the climate of insecurity and produced the continent's first ready-made fallout shelter. ABC Guard - its name a reference to the protection it is said to offer from atomic,...

MAUCHE, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan followers of a U.S.-based religious sect which predicted the world would end after a September 12 outbreak of nuclear war moved into bunkers on Wednesday despite the failure of their prediction. Dozens of members of the House of Yahweh -- dressed in gas masks, gloves and long overcoats -- have built a network of underground hideouts in the small highland village of Mauche. They have stocked the bunkers with dried fermented flour meant to feed them for a year, by which time sinners would have been wiped off the Earth, according to their beliefs. "Those...

Keeping The Peace In Lebanon The Israeli Defence Force operating within Southern Lebanon is describing its most recent discovery as "a spectacular find" - a huge Hizbollah bunker hidden underground. Sky's Lisa Holland has this special report.

Joe Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment. "We have the most powerful military in the history of the world," Lieberman told CBS's "Face the Nation." "We are capable, if necessary, of continuing to pursue our aims militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere and, if necessary, conduct a military attack on Iran." Lieberman said the he hoped an attack on Iran, if it should come, would be...

Well, we’ve got some bad bad news for the paranoid (isn’t it always?): that snazzy collection of tin foil hats you keep, for those rare events that draw you from the relative safety of your bunker in Idaho and into the dangerous outdoors, aren’t doing much good protecting you from the deathly radiation that permeates the air.

North Korea to help Iran dig secret missile bunkersBy Con Coughlin(Filed: 12/06/2005) Iran is secretly negotiating with North Korea to build a network of underground bunkers to conceal its clandestine nuclear weapons project. A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included a senior North Korean specialist in underground construction who helped to design the bunkers that contain Pyongyang's illegal weapons programme. Current talks centre on whether the North Koreans will undertake the work for the Iranians, or act as advisers to Iranian construction companies. The North Koreans specialise in the...

A probe into the mysterious shooting of two soldiers has revealed the existence beneath the Serbian capital of a secret communist-era network of tunnels and bunkers that could have served as recent hideouts for some of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects. The 2-square-mile complex -- dubbed a "concrete underground city" by the local media -- was built deep inside a rocky hill in a residential area of Belgrade in the 1960s on the orders of communist strongman Josip Broz Tito. Until recently its existence was known only to senior military commanders and politicians. The secret was revealed during an...

NEW DELHI (AFP) Sep 22, 2003 The Indian government has decided to build two nuclear-proof bunkers to protect top leaders including Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in case of an atomic strike, a report said Monday. The first shelter would be built in central New Delhi at South Block, a 1931 complex next to the presidential palace that houses the prime minister's office and the foreign and defence ministries, the Hindustan Times reported. It said the second bunker would be set up within a 400-kilometre (250-mile) radius of the capital. Potential locations in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and...

Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) of Edina has received a four-year, $15 million Air Force contract to develop a warhead capable of neutralizing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon said Monday. A team of 12 engineers and project managers at Alliant's ordnance and ground systems division in Plymouth will research, design, develop and test the bomb, which is called the Shredder. The new precision weapon will be designed to target and penetrate the hardened bunkers where weapons of mass destruction are typically kept, officials said.

United States intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, went into seclusion during the final build-up to the war in Iraq because he feared that he too might be the target of attack. This led the Pentagon to consider new ways to keep him and his inner circle on edge as a way of bolstering deterrence on the peninsula. Intelligence reports say Mr Kim vanished from public view for 50 days starting in mid-February, a time when the Pentagon also moved bombers into the Korean area of operations. The military's ability to mount precision attacks on...

THE commanding officer of the RAF’s Dambusters spoke yesterday of his pride when his pilots were given the honour of leading the aerial bombardment against Saddam Hussein - on the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Second World War bomber squadron. Wing Commander Dave Robertson and the crews of 617 Squadron fired Britain’s new super bomb, "Storm Shadow", in precision attacks on Iraqi command and control bunkers in and around Baghdad, marking the start of the "shock and awe" phase of the war. "It was absolutely incredible," he recalled yesterday after the first of the air crews from the...

<p>German who helped design Iraqi leader's shelter says conventional bombs inadequate.</p> <p>A German trained as a civil-defense engineer said Sunday that he helped a company design a bunker under Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palace in the early 1980s that is likely to withstand even the newest non-nuclear bombs.</p>

<p>Now that they're in Baghdad, coalition forces hope to fulfill their mission by capturing or killing Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>But a question remains: Can they find him? U.S. officials speculate that Saddam has scores of caves and bunkers hollowed out beneath the ancient city, bombproof labyrinths where he could hide for days, perhaps weeks.</p>

Army's 3rd and elements of the 101st Airborne Divisions making for Karah Center and adjioning Presidential Airfield.United States 1st Marine Expeditionary Force fighting way towards Presidential Bunker at Dora south of Baghdad.Reinforced Amercian Units at Baghdad International Aiport are securing underground complex under the runway and battling Iraqis on highways from Baghdad to 'Northern Palace,' advancing after threatened Iraq martyrdom attack did not materialize Friday night.United States forces also clashing with Iraqis on the road to fifth buried palace compound southeast of Tikrit.

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Serb, German engineers: Swimming pool, gourmet kitchen 90 metres below Baghdad palace Saddam Hussein 's chances of surviving the U.S. bombing assault on his capital may depend on an elaborate series of underground tunnels and bunkers built for the Iraqi leader, mostly by Yugoslav engineers in the 1970s and 1980s . Although little is known about the fabled and labyrinthine network of underground tunnels that stretches for kilometres under the streets of Baghdad , and even out into the Iraqi desert, Western military analysts believe they can comfortably accommodate thousands of people and even house military command posts and hospitals....

Bunkers make Saddam a difficult target Ewen MacAskill in Baghdad Tuesday September 24, 2002 The Guardian Western diplomats yesterday dismissed as negligible the chances of killing the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, through air strikes or some other form of assassination. President Saddam has a series of deep underground bunkers capable of protecting him from a direct hit with conventional weapons. The prospect of a military strike aimed at him and senior members of his government was reported by US newspapers at the weekend. The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in comments consistent with the reports, said late on Sunday, on...