U.S. Forces Explore Underground Bunker

Associated Press ^ | Tuesday April 8, 2003

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Howie Carr is reading this thread. He just quoted directly.

Who is Howie Carr?

[Smedley]

A door. And behind it, lined with moss, a cave entrance - another mysterious, potentially dangerous gateway into the murky world of Baghdad Underground.

Could BaghdadUnderground be any more anti-American and slimey than the world of www.DemocraticUnderground.com?

[expatpat]

I'll bet there are quite a number of people in Baghdad who can act as guides -- hopefully, some of them will survive.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This doesn't sound like a bunker that Saddam would have bothered with!

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Link of interest:

IRAQ: It may take atomic hit to breach Saddam bunker

[Tennessee_Bob]

My NVGs have an IR source that I can turn on or off, depending on ambient lighting. Only problem is that other NVGs can see it as well.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, Boston is a long ways from the SoCal beach!

[Wolfstar]

Yeah, if Gerald hadn't FU'd and got his butt booted out of the country, he might have finally found Al Capone's loot!

[dead]

When I was about 16, we were exploring up on the Palisades cliffs in New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson. There were lots of forts and other structures up there during Revolutionary times, and we stumbled on one that had apparently been unexplored. There was an iron plate buried under a few inches of dirt, and when we pulled it back we could see that it led into an underground room with stone walls.

We returned the next day with shovels, beer and flashlights. Me and my friend Dennis headed in, while Ronnie stayed above ground in case anybody came snooping around.

At the far end of the 20-foot room, there was a wall that looked like it led into another room (it had an archway structure over the stones.)

Me and Dennis were drinking beer and pulling away stones, wondering if were going to find gold or skeletons back there. Finally we removed enough of the stones to push a shovel through the wall. Dennis says to me jokingly, “Watch out for ghosts!”

In the meantime, our friend Ronnie was wandering around through the woods, when he noticed the tip of a shovel pointing out of the hillside. He grabbed it and yanked it out of the ground and could hear me and Dennis underground screaming like schoolgirls.

[snopercod]

Carpe Diem

[kimosabe31]

bump

[gcruse]

Meanwhile, under the city...

[Dog Gone]

That would have made a good chapter in Stand by Me.

[Happy2BMe]

There Are NO TUNNELS in Baghdad! No WMD - No TUNNELS - No NOTTA One!

[El Gato]

I'm not sure if NVG's would do much good in a pitch black tunnel or cave. IIRC, they magnify weak ambient light - like starlight.

That's correct, but at least some NVGs are also senstive to near infrared light to some degree. That means you can have an IR "flashlight", which couldn't be seen by someone without NVGs. It also means you can have a very dim "illuminator", that might not be visible to the naked eye at all, and certainly relections around corners, shadows and such wouldn't be visible without NVGs.