Topic: W A R - on March 16, 2003 at 4:37:21 PM CET
SWANK BUNKER FOR BUTCHER
This is the underground bunker Saddam Hussein hopes will save his life if U.S. forces begin dropping bombs on Baghdad.
The Iraqi dictator plans to scurry like a rat by hiding 300 feet underground in a refuge that has 9-foot-thick, steel-reinforced concrete walls. Sand has been pumped around the outside of the walls for extra insulation.
Entry to the bunker is through a secret passageway, deep in the basement of his presidential palace.
WHEN the bombs start dropping on Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein will be 32m under ground in a palatial blast-proof bunker.
Details of the Hitler-style bunker, built for the Iraqi dictator in 1982 during the war with Iran, have been revealed.
According to Germany's Focus magazine, the $150 million bunker, designed to withstand missile attacks and bomb blasts, was built by German firm Boswau and Knauer, who built air-raid shelters for Hitler's Third Reich in World War II.
¬> NEW YORK POST ¬> Herald sun ... Comment
