[Interesting Times]

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...

[Aeronaut]

Two underground passages lead directly to the Tigris.

I bet they aren't all that hardened. A flood is good, too.

[6ppc]

I think we should stage a contest between the SeaBees and the Army Corp of Engineers to see which side can crack this nut first.

[LS]

"Two underground passages lead directly to the Tigris."

Notice that the Marines decided to come up the EAST side of the Tigris??