The Hindu : Saddam's bunker under attack?

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Friday, Apr 04, 2003

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Saddam's bunker under attack?

DUBAI APRIL 3. U.S. forces claimed today to have targeted the bunker of the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, which its designer says can withstand anything short of a hit by a Hiroshima-size bomb.

The U.S. Central Command said yesterday that coalition forces had targeted the presidential bunker and residence in Baghdad's Republican Palace district and the New Presidential Palace in the Al-Khark section west of the Tigris River, using precision-guided munitions in early-morning raids. Karl Bernd Esser, the German architect who says he designed the bunker buried deep underneath the palace complex, recently told Germay's ZDF television that the walls were three metres 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. Two underground passages from the bunker lead directly to the Tigris. — AFP

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