Saddam's Baghdad Bunker
The BBC has the details on Saddam's Baghdad bunker, which was inside one of his huge oil-for-everything-but-food palaces. The BBC explains:
The whole palace is just an elaborate disguise for Saddam Hussein's nuclear shelter and underground command centre.
It's huge - 1,800 square metres - and was not even scratched by any of the seven bunker buster bombs, or 20 cruise missiles fired at it during the war.
The palace still stands - from the outside just like the many huge lavish buildings that are scattered across Iraq.
But behind the ornate stonework it is like a "wedding cake of thick concrete floors," according to John Carter, a British engineer working in Iraq who has taken a particular interest in the shelter, and even gives tours every now and again to those in the know.
The layers of concrete tricked the specially designed missiles, which 'count' the number of floors they pass through before detonating.
I won't reproduce all of the details here, but this explanation of the bunker's origins by John Carter, "a British engineer working in Iraq," is amazing:
"The man who designed it was the grandson of the woman who designed Hitler's bunker. It was built by Tito's men in Yugoslavia between 1975 and 1983."
Unreal. Check out the video link towards the upper right corner of the page for video footage of the bunker.
The whole palace is just an elaborate disguise for Saddam Hussein's nuclear shelter and underground command centre.
It's huge - 1,800 square metres - and was not even scratched by any of the seven bunker buster bombs, or 20 cruise missiles fired at it during the war.
The palace still stands - from the outside just like the many huge lavish buildings that are scattered across Iraq.
But behind the ornate stonework it is like a "wedding cake of thick concrete floors," according to John Carter, a British engineer working in Iraq who has taken a particular interest in the shelter, and even gives tours every now and again to those in the know.
The layers of concrete tricked the specially designed missiles, which 'count' the number of floors they pass through before detonating.
I won't reproduce all of the details here, but this explanation of the bunker's origins by John Carter, "a British engineer working in Iraq," is amazing:
"The man who designed it was the grandson of the woman who designed Hitler's bunker. It was built by Tito's men in Yugoslavia between 1975 and 1983."
Unreal. Check out the video link towards the upper right corner of the page for video footage of the bunker.
posted by Thomas Joscelyn at 10:30 PM
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