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| Closing In on Baghdad Will Push War Underground |
| 2003-04-05 |
| As U.S. military troops push toward Baghdad with the most modern equipment, technology and training money can buy, the Iraqi leadership will rely on a defense that is ancient as warfare itself: underground tunnels and bunkers. Over the past 20 years, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is believed to have constructed an elaborate series of underground tunnels and bunkers around Baghdad where he, his leadership and the elite troops that guard them are able to move about virtually undetected and nearly impervious to U.S. munitions, according to Iraq experts, a former Iraqi scientist and Western construction officials whose companies helped build the warrens. Among the more extensive tunnel complexes are those described by Hussein Shahristani, once Iraq's top nuclear scientist, who was tortured and imprisoned in Iraq. Shahristani, who escaped Iraq during the first Gulf War, said that subway plans developed by several foreign firms were actually used by the Iraqi military to hide and transport the country's chemical and biological weapons. Shahristani told CBS's "60 Minutes" in February that he believed Iraq had "more than 100 kilometers of very complex network, multi-layer tunnels." |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #8 I think they have nukes because it was reported on the French TF1 of training exercises for troops during a nuclear detonation. Plus this guy does not hesitate to drop WMD on his own soil. If all the troops are underground they could detonate a nuke and counterattack. |
| Posted by: George 2003-04-06 05:37:04 |
| #7 No need to pump. Just find where one crosses under the Tirgis or Euphrates, and drop a JDAM or three on it. When it caves in, the rats will have to float to the top, or drown. Baghdad doesn't need a subway system, anyway. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-06 00:51:42 |
| #6 Those tunnels run pretty deep.. which means.. below the level of the Tigris. The question then becomes .. can they pump water out faster than we can pump it in? |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-04-05 19:15:58 |
| #5 You bet they got nukes? I hope not! What makes you think that? Is that just a guess? In anycase, this is getting more and more strange by the day. God bless the troops! Brien |
| Posted by: Brien 2003-04-05 18:17:40 |
| #4 That's where your going to find the WMD. I bet they got nukes. By the way, The subway company that build those tunnels, I'm sure they were french, the world leader in Subways is a Paris/Berlin based firm. |
| Posted by: George 2003-04-05 17:17:46 |
| #3 Since (some, anyway, of) the tunnels seem to connect to the airport, I think anyone down there's in for a nasty surprise. |
| Posted by: someone 2003-04-05 17:13:51 |
| #2 Only a hundred kilometers? Pikers! There aren't any moles quite like the North Korean moles. They have such an elaborate system of tunnels that they have an entire air support complex under a mountain. Pyongyang is reported to have 700 MILES of tunnels and bunkers constructed underneath it. The number of miles of railroad tunnels KNOWN in North Korea exceeds 100km. All that said, I do believe hasbeen has the tunnels. I believe one of them connected to the airport we "don't control". I'm just wondering when the 101st is going to start playing "catch the mole". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-05 16:58:22 |
| #1 Here goes the next thing to try to predict doom and gloom. If they exist, we can locate them, if we can locate them and have control of the surface we can destroy them. |
| Posted by: Ralph 2003-04-05 16:50:58 |