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2003-04-05 Terror Networks

Closing In on Baghdad Will Push War Underground

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Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-05 04:43 pm|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 16:50:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 16:58:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 17:13:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 17:17:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 18:17:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-05 19:15:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-06 00:51:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-04-06 05:37:04|| Front Page Top

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