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<p>A bunker under Saddam Hussein's presidential palace was built to be nuclear-proof and is likely to withstand conventional bombing, a man who says he helped design it said Sunday.</p> <p>"I don't believe that the bombs the Americans have will be enough," said Karl Esser, who told The Associated Press he was a consultant to a German-led group of companies that built the Iraqi leader's shelter in the early 1980s.</p>

Going underground ... bombproof bunker where the tyrant will hide THIS is the Hitler-style bunker Saddam Hussein hopes will save him when the bombs start raining on Baghdad. The Iraqi dictator will scuttle 100 yards underground beneath tons of blast-proof reinforced concrete and steel. The £60million bolthole carries grim echoes of the bunker where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler fled and committed suicide as Berlin fell in the final days of the Second World War. Ironically it was built by a firm from GERMANY — now trying to block efforts to nail Saddam — and was tagged the Fuhrerbunker of...