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Article: Saddam's Bunkers: Beneath the ground, a realm of catacombs and secret passages, storehouses and hideouts.
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- Newsweek
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- April 7, 2003
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Byline: Stefan Theil and Christopher Dickey
When one of the most secure and luxurious of his palace-and-bunker complexes was completed in 1984, at a cost of $70 million, Saddam Hussein moved in right away. But even protected by enormous layers of concrete, sand and steel, behind zigzag corridors and blast doors made to withstand a Hiroshima-size explosion, and guarded by men who knew they'd have to be ready to die for him, or be killed by him, Saddam apparently could not sleep. "All night long he heard a sound like the cocking of a pistol," remembers Wolfgang Wendler, the German engineer who supervised the project. Wendler was summoned by angry officials to find ...
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