Saddam's bunker under allied bombing

Agence France-Presse | April 3, 2003

[ko_kyi]

People in the bunker were celebrating the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying it was an omen for their victory.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Any chance this guy coughed up the blueprints?

[linear]

I was thinking the same thing. I bet they are wishing good luck to the 10 year old boys they are sending off to die, too.

[ko_kyi]

I dunno, but it is a pretty good bet.

[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...

[Keith]

I am willing to bet that any survivors will be eligible to sue for false promises...

[never4get]

Mmmmm, if a bomb falls on a bunker and Saddam is in a coma can he hear it?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Two underground passages lead directly to the Tigris.

Hope so.

[finnman69]

Think it can withstand a direct assault by a SEAL Team?

[randita]

This bunker is history, I thought, the minute I read the cocky German designer's assertion that it is impenetrable.

You don't tell the U.S. military that something is impenetrable.

[Spruce]

[Hatteras]

I heard they dropped 40 JDAMs last night (yesterday). 20 of which were dropped on the same location. Could this have been it? Hmmm....

[camle]

lemme see.... the bunker has walls three meters thick, and the bomb can penetrate nine meters of reinforced concrete.

Hmm....

Yep Saddam. bet he feels real secure right about now. Hope his running water has a good septic system beneath it.

[Mr. Lucky]

How long have elite German scientists been building impenetrable bunkers and how long have street smart United States ordinance sergeants been blowing them to Hell?

[boomop1]

Is Agence France-Presse Pravda on the Seine I have doubts of any reliability of this source.

[Beck_isright]

Hmmm, so if we did a MOAB on impact, it would hold up? Please, please, please FNC or SKY News, get video of this. I wanna watch.

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[Dialup Llama]

>I heard they dropped 40 JDAMs last night (yesterday). 20 of which were dropped on the same location. Could this have been it? Hmmm....

Perhaps the bunker survived, but the people in it are going to be in pretty bad shape.

[Beck_isright]

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BUMP FOR FRPIC OF THE DAY!!!!