Posted on 06/04/2005 11:58:43 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Marines uncover bunker complex
By Antonio Castaneda
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 5, 2005
LATIFIYAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines said yesterday they had discovered a massive underground bunker complex with 50 caches of weapons and ammunition and living quarters fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.
In the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi forces said they had arrested a key terrorist leader linked to Syrian intelligence, who was responsible for numerous beheadings and car bomb attacks.
The Marines said the bunker complex, discovered over the past four days in Anbar province west of Baghdad, included a recently used "insurgent lair" containing air-conditioned quarters and high-tech military equipment, including night-vision glasses.
The bunker was found cut from a rock quarry in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad. Marines said the facility was 170 yards wide and 275 yards long.
In its rooms were "four fully furnished living spaces, a kitchen with fresh food, two shower facilities and a working air conditioner. Other rooms within the complex were filled with weapons and ammunition," the Marines said.
The weapons included "numerous types of machine guns, ordnance including mortars, rockets and artillery rounds, black uniforms, ski masks, compasses, --
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In another development, an Iraqi judge trying Saddam Hussein said the former dictator's morale has plummeted as the gravity of the war-crimes charges he faces sinks in.
Judge Raid Juhi told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in an interview: "The ousted president has suffered a collapse in his morale because he understands the extent of the charges against him and because he's certain that he will stand trial before an impartial court."
No date has been set for the start of the trial, but Judge Juhi said the former dictator was expected to face the tribunal within two months.
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I think Mr Castaneda will be looking for a new job soon
Too bad no terrorists were taking showers when we found the place...
I hope no korans were damaged in he taking of the complex.....(whew!)
Maybe, next time they won't get a chance to dry off.
Cool every one should have one under his back yard.
Since when do these bums in dirty nightshirts take showers?
We discover an abandonded tunnel complex that is roughly 175,000 square feet inside. I fail to see how this is big news. Maybe if it was occupied, but it wasn't. I would rather hear about discovering a 500 square foot house that actually has bad guys in it.
They won't be able to use the weapons and ammunition, and they won't be able to go to the bunker to rest up and refresh themselves and plan future attacks from there.
Now they'll have to use that 500 square foot house (or something like it) as a safehouse, and if the good guys hit them there, it won't be nearly as defensible as the bunker.
We winning, one step at a time...
We are winning, one step at a time...
We are winning, one step at a time...
You might be less of a killjoy if you actually read the whole article. Do you consider your house "abandonded" when you aren't home? And if the cops raided your house when you weren't home, took possession of all your belongings including your computer and cell phone, do you think they might learn some things about you they didn't previously know? And do you imagine that taking out a terrorist sanctuary that is roughly the size of a sports stadium isn't really a big score?
If there is a location that is the size of a sports stadium, and there is nobody there, to me that means it is abandonded. Someplace that large would have to have someone there, if for nothing else than support and upkeep. There is a big difference between finding something this big without anyone in it compared with finding a house without anyone in it. The article mentions things like black uniforms which makes it sound like an old fedayeen bunker complex. I have no doubt it has been used as a staging location, but I don't think this find is as impressive as some people are making it out to be.
Abandonded doesn't necessarily mean they didn't need it anymore or they would have taken the weapons when they left.
I doubt the vermin who were using it would share your dismissive assessment.
Ever see the cartoon series Gullivers Travels? There's a character named Glum, he speaks in a nasaly, monotone voice, similar to Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller.
His favorite, and most famous line's were "we'll never make it", "we're all doomed"
Everybody brings joy into a room. Some when they enter, others when they leave.
"We winning, one step at a time...
"We are winning, one step at a time..."
I like the first one. It's got character.
They just haven't figured out how to spin it to make the US look bad.
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