Itar-Tass - Bin Laden may be hiding in mountain bunker near Qandahar

Itar-Tass | September 18, 2001 | Rafael Bikbayev

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CAIRO (Itar-Tass) - International terrorist Osama bin Laden may be hiding in an underground mountain bunker near the Afghan city of Qandahar, which was designed to his order by German engineers in 1998, the Saudi Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Tuesday with reference to trustworthy sources in Afghanistan.

The bin Laden bunker consists of a ramified system of interlinked passages and gallaries, the lowest one of which runs at a depth of 47 metres. The corridors, built at different levels, are provided with electric escalators. The catacombs are equipped with an automatic life-support system, including powerful electric generators, which allows eighty people to hold out in the shelter for approximately six months.

According to some sources, bin Laden had paid several tens of millions of U.S. dollars for the construction of this bunker, which has an effective system of forced ventilation.

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[doug from upland]

Can anyone find a satellite photo which shows where this is???

[Flint]

Those generators have to be powered by something. If they are fuel burning they need air, cut the air off you cut the generator off. If they are water powered you need moving water, cut the water off you cut the generators off. If they are nuclear powered they need cooling water, same as above. If indeed this bunker has a 6 month shelf life, and the generators run on fossel fuel, there is a big supply somewhere in that complex. It would need a fill pipe and a vent pipe. This is so easy, he is dead meat.

I hope that they issue all of our troups a package of pork chops. Every dead terrorist gets one put in his mouth and his chin kicked shut.

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Can anyone find a satellite photo which shows where this is???

Not yet, but hopefully we'll have a picture of a new crater there soon.

[Shurnuff]

I wish I could give credit to the author for this but this was forwarded to me by a friend with no credit given.

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America.
You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America.
You used helpless American bodies to take out other American bodies,
but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America.
Why? Because of something you guys will never understand.
America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers.
America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies.
America is about an IDEA.
An idea... thatyou can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to,
Where you live for the most part like you envisioned iving, and pursue Happiness.
(No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany:
"If you can not see my point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans.
We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one.
We don't have to listen to your speech.... but you're free to say one.
Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you.
We don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride.
We're a collection of guys who don't agree, called States.
We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world.

Another idea, we made up on the spot.
You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough....
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time.
That's an unfortunate image to project to the world,
but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in.
It's unfortunate, too, because people start to forget that when you attack Americans,
we tend to fight like a cornered badger.
The first we knew of the War of 1812
was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground.
Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to,
and it's not going to turn out like you think, either.
Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either.
We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger.
Horrific idea, nowadays?
Got news for you bucko, it was back then, too, but we used it anyway.
Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em both.

Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project.
Told me once that right up until they threw the switch,
The physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission,
or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything.
But they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win.
Does that tell you something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us?
It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days.
Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps,
in far-flung places.... who think they're safe.
Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC.....

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming. Better start sleeping with one eye open.

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country looking for opportunity,
looking for liberty, looking for freedom.
Even if they misuse it.
The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons were overjoyed
to find out how much freedom there was.
First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns.
The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons.
It was a big PITA then (especially in south Florida),
But you're only the newest PITA, not the first.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America,
America lives in US!
American Spirit is what it's called.
And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it.
Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit.
Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can.
We're coming.

[VaBthang4]

OHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE let him be there.

If so then we land the combat engineers and EOD let them look over the blueprints we are certain to have in our possesion.
Develope a game plan for opening it.
pump it full of some sort of sleep agent, open it up, load Bin Laden and anyone else we deem necessary on a 53 out to an airbase and send'em on over.
I dont think He would be that stupid though to lock himself into a stagnant position.