[ko_kyi]

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

[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?

[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.

V

[chainsaw]

When this clyner designed the bunker, the US didn't have bunker busters that could go through 100 feet of solid dirt or 20 feet of solid concrete before exploding. If that's not enough how aqbout three bunker busters placed into the same bunker. for good measure you lob in 3 dozen tomahawk missiles. Saddam and his two psychopath sons are dead, and have been from the get-go.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Here's a link:

http://www.sheltex.de/sheltex/0_germany.htm

[b4its2late]

Apart from his bunker, Saddam is said to have ordered the construction of two others in Baghdad that should enable his army command to resist up to six months.

Do they have an internal air supply? Even then, how long would it last? If not, we should plug up the one they have.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

First the airport, then this!

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[SENTINEL]

What an idiot, this whole system was designed on the faulty idea that an enemy would not have air dominance. If our biggest bunker buster can only get through 25% of the protection, we simply need to use four of them, one right after the other.

Also, we will control the ground over the bunkers very soon. We could just let the seabees clear the dirt with a couple of big bulldozers, use a rock drill to punch a 2" hole through the roof, and then the possibilities are limitless. Oxy-Acetylene and a long fuze (AKA Saddam-b-que), several thousand gallons of liquid nitrogen (AKA Saddam-cicle), several thousand diamondback rattlesnakes (AKA Saddam messed with Texas), the possibilities could make for an interesting thread.

[Smedley]

"Knock, Knock"

"Who's there?"

"Gee"

"Gee who?"

"GeeBeeU-37"

[Blueflag]

"The GBU-37, which US air force commanders have nicknamed "the crowd pleaser," is a 2.25 tonne (5,000-pound) bomb that guides itself to the target using Global Positioning Satellites and steerable fins. Its hardened nose and 13 foot (4.0 meter) length is designed to penetrate six to nine meters (20 to 30 feet) of reinforced concrete before exploding. Its fuse can be set to explode at varying depths depending on the target. It is delivered only by the B-2 stealth bomber, which can carry eight of the bombs. "

Questions from the audience?

[mc10]

there has to be an intake for air...although he may have a supply self contained...but it can't last forever...is the ventilation the aquilles heel of this bunker?