Saddam 'likely to be safe in bunker'

The man who designed Saddam Hussein's presidential palace bunker says it was built to be nuclear-proof and is likely to withstand conventional bombing.

Saddam 'likely to be safe in bunker'

The man who designed Saddam Hussein's presidential palace bunker says it was built to be nuclear-proof and is likely to withstand conventional bombing.

Karl Esser, who was a consultant to a German-led group of companies that built the Iraqi leader's shelter in the early 1980s, says he doesn't believe US bombs can destroy it.

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