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.

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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