Word: bunkers
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Elizabeth F. Bunker welcomes her students to class in the usual...
Minutes later, Bunker encourages the class to make other kinds of sounds. The students readily moan and groan, seeming to release a plethora of pent-up tension...
...Frustration? Any frustration in here?" Bunker prods. And the groans and moans become louder...
...clincher came last month, when U.S. intelligence satellites picked up radio transmissions from the bunker, sending orders to Iraqi military units in the Kuwait theater of operations. Missing from the accumulated evidence were any photos of civilians entering the bunker at night in search of safety. American officers say they assumed that civilians were being kept out because it was a military security area and the wire-mesh fence was there for that purpose...
This particular bunker became a target because of the effectiveness of earlier U.S. attacks on Baghdad. In the opening days of the war, the allies' strategic objective was to "decapitate" the Iraqi armed forces, to cut Saddam Hussein and his top officers off from the army in the south. Bombing raids were mounted to destroy command headquarters and military communications centers in the heart of the capital. As these were knocked out, the task of coordinating the armed forces was decentralized to secondary posts in the suburbs -- like the one hit last week...