[JohnHuang2]

[beaversmom]

Where's Geraldo when you need him?

[seeker41]

What if Saddam got out this way, there are probably hundreds such tunnels.

[Hugin]

Opens into the tigris river.

Glub glub.

[Jhensy]

Huh? Tigris a good 8-10 miles away according to my map....

[dead]

The US government has already established a toll on this tunnel.

[1Old Pro]

I say flood it.

[SGCOS]

I am reminded of the eternal echo from beneath O'hare....

"Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end""Please look down. The moving sidewalk is about to end"

[Beck_isright]

Pinging Geraldo, Pinging Geraldo; oh, he's in Kuwait, never mind. Pinging Jerry Springer, Pinging Jerry Springer.

V

[PhiKapMom]

Brian Williams was talking to General Meigs after a discussion with a General at CENTCOM that said there are tunnels all under Baghdad. More of them than the subways of NY. This find of the airport tunnel fits in perfectly with that report.

[dfwgator]

"Fire in the hole."

[N. Theknow]

So that's where my luggage went.

[Weimdog]

Secret tunnel or drainage?

I've got secret tunnels under the street in front of my home that carries runoff to the sea, I'm sure LAX does as well.

[KellyAdmirer]

Open Sesame!

[jpl]

Once we we start discovering more of these secret tunnels, it'll be only a matter of weeks (if not days) before we discover where the caches of anthrax and VX are all hidden.

[Shermy]

Extra drainage tunnels for an airport on a flood plain?

Shocking!!!

[rolling_stone]

I wonder if the tunnel was planned as an escape route TO the airport for a fast airplane exit...

[cgk]

Whoops - I even searched and couldn't find this posted in breaking. Sorry about the dupe.

[skeeter]

Finding secret tunnels under airports is exciting.

I never forget finding the one under Denver International. Saved me from Starbucks hell in terminal C

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Firefight at Baghdad airport - Tunnel to Tigris River found
Reuters | April 3, 2003
 

Posted on 04/03/2003 2:02 PM CST by HAL9000
 

NEAR BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces advancing on Baghdad are fighting Iraqis dug in at the capital's main airport on Thursday evening.

Reuters correspondent Luke Baker, 33 km (21 miles) south west of the capital with the engineer units of the 3rd Infantry Division, said military sources told him on Thursday a 3rd Infantry task force was fighting Iraqis dug in to defend the airport.

No further information was immediately available on the progress of the battle, but sources said U.S. forces had discovered some sort of tunnel system under the airport and one tunnel led all the way back to the Tigris river.

 

 

Baghdad's Saddam International Airport is about 20 km (12 miles) southwest of the centre of the sprawling city of five million. Sporadic U.S. artillery and rocket fire had been launched towards Baghdad since darkness fel