Word: bunkerisms
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...handover of sovereignty only underscores the desperate security situation in Iraq. No one expected the Iraqis to take over with an inaugural parade and marching bands and baton twirlers and a speech before crowds of thousands but some semblance of a ceremony was expected. Instead, it was done bunker-style because of the threats to the new regime...
...Palace, published in 1982, is still considered the classic account of the mysterious National Security Agency (NSA), which electronically snoops on friends and enemies overseas. His account of 9/11 and its aftermath is studded with new details, including some about the undisclosed location known as Site R, an underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001. Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R "is a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir." It is just 7 miles from Camp David...
...loud shooting. As we advance, the noise of fighting is joined by the frantic barking of dogs and the lowing of cattle. At a point where the track forks right, a group of Marines sets up mortars and fires them into a building believed to be a reinforced bunker. The building goes up in flames. "Move! Move!" says...
Weighed down by their weapons and body armor, the Marines move on toward a second bunker. It is taken out, and within minutes we are pulling back under fire. We run across a field divided by an irrigation ditch. "Get in that f______ ditch!" an NCO shouts. We sink to our waist in the water, scrabbling for grip in the slippery mud. "Get out of that f______ ditch!" the same NCO yells, just as our feet touch bottom...
...concerns about would-be 747 pilot Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001. Yet Bush went out of his way to express confidence in CIA director George Tenet. Bush described his activities on Sept. 11 and explained how he communicated from the road with Cheney, in a secure bunker back at the White House. A top Administration aide explained this was one reason Cheney accompanied Bush at the session--"because they were both a part of that...