Word: bunkerism
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...sanctions, meanwhile, can and should continue. When Saddam emerges from his bunker, blinking into the sunlight, he will face the devastation he has brought down on his people as well as an embargo that could last as long as he is in power. Perhaps then, finally, there will be a genuinely Arab -- indeed, Iraqi -- solution to the real problem Saddam represents, which is aggression and its consequences for everyone involved. Checkmate: the king is dead...
...typically weighing in at 400 tons. A letter from home is reread until the pages crumble. "I had just opened the letter from my wife when we had a Scud alert," says Sergeant Darrell Thompson, 37, of the XVIII Airborne. "I dropped my mail to run off to the bunker, but I put the photo of my little girl in my pocket, like a good-luck charm...
Saddam can seek shelter in a palace bunker some 40 miles out of Baghdad, but allied forces are unlikely to find him there. During wartime, the Iraqi leader makes a habit of hiding in civilian areas. A Shi'ite opposition leader recalls that his cousin's family was rousted by soldiers at dawn several years ago. The group was sent to Baghdad's Al Rasheed Hotel for the next 24 hours before being permitted to return home. Only then did government officials tell the family that Saddam had spent the previous evening in its quarters. In thanks for the coerced...
...Security Council is expected to discuss the bombing of the bunker at a closed-door meeting...
...Iraq claimed that hundreds of civilian deaths resulted from a U.S. air strike on a bunker that the Pentagon maintains was a military command center...