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Saddam's bunker under allied bombing
Agence France-Presse
| April 3, 2003
Posted on 04/03/2003 10:06:15 AM PST by HAL9000
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:06:15 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
People in the bunker were celebrating the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying it was an omen for their victory.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:07:58 AM PST
by
ko_kyi
To: ko_kyi
Any chance this guy coughed up the blueprints?
To: ko_kyi
I was thinking the same thing. I bet they are wishing good luck to the 10 year old boys they are sending off to die, too.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:09:58 AM PST
by
linear
To: gov_bean_ counter
I dunno, but it is a pretty good bet.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:10:19 AM PST
by
ko_kyi
To: HAL9000
DUBAI (AFP) - US forces claiming to be 15 kilometers (nine miles) from downtown Baghdad Thursday have targeted the bunker of President Saddam Hussein, which its designer says can withstand anything short of a hit by a Hiroshima-size bomb. We Americans love a challenge.
Karl Bernd Esser, the German architect who says he designed the bunker buried deep underneath the palace complex, recently told Germany's ZDF television that the walls were three meters (10 feet) thick and could withstand temperatures up to 300 degrees Celsius and survive anything short of a direct hit from a nuclear weapon the size of that which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
Sounds like a testable theory.
Two underground passages lead directly to the Tigris.
Delta Force, please pick up on the red phone...
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:10:44 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(Eagles Up! Join the Rally for America...)
To: HAL9000
I am willing to bet that any survivors will be eligible to sue for false promises...
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:10:54 AM PST
by
Keith
To: HAL9000
Mmmmm, if a bomb falls on a bunker and Saddam is in a coma can he hear it?
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:11:03 AM PST
by
never4get
To: ko_kyi
Two underground passages lead directly to the Tigris. Hope so.
To: HAL9000
Think it can withstand a direct assault by a SEAL Team?
To: HAL9000
This bunker is history, I thought, the minute I read the cocky German designer's assertion that it is impenetrable.
You don't tell the U.S. military that something is impenetrable.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:12:05 AM PST
by
randita
To: HAL9000
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:12:22 AM PST
by
Spruce
To: HAL9000
I heard they dropped 40 JDAMs last night (yesterday). 20 of which were dropped on the same location. Could this have been it? Hmmm....
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:13:00 AM PST
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: HAL9000
lemme see.... the bunker has walls three meters thick, and the bomb can penetrate nine meters of reinforced concrete.
Hmm....
Yep Saddam. bet he feels real secure right about now. Hope his running water has a good septic system beneath it.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:13:15 AM PST
by
camle
(no camle jokes, please...OK, maybe one little one)
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To: HAL9000
How long have elite German scientists been building impenetrable bunkers and how long have street smart United States ordinance sergeants been blowing them to Hell?
To: HAL9000
Is Agence France-Presse Pravda on the Seine I have doubts of any reliability of this source.
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:14:19 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: HAL9000
Hmmm, so if we did a MOAB on impact, it would hold up? Please, please, please FNC or SKY News, get video of this. I wanna watch.
V
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:14:34 AM PST
by
Beck_isright
(If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
To: Hatteras
>I heard they dropped 40 JDAMs last night (yesterday). 20 of which were dropped on the same location. Could this have been it? Hmmm....
Perhaps the bunker survived, but the people in it are going to be in pretty bad shape.
To: Spruce
V
BUMP FOR FRPIC OF THE DAY!!!!
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posted on
04/03/2003 10:15:30 AM PST
by
Beck_isright
(If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
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