Saturday, September 17, 2005
The Bath Party Headquarters...
While we were in Baghdad waiting on our flight to Kuwait, we met up with a civilian contractor who had been down at Numaniyah with us. He took us on a tour of the rubble of the former Bath Party Headquarters. It had been bombed during the initial invasion and hasn't been fixed yet.
There was a huge underground bunker at the Party HQ as well, three levels deep and several hundred meters long. However, my camera battery went dead while we were still going through the above ground portion, so I wasn't able to get any footage. The place was incredible! Huge blast doors at the entrance, decontamination rooms, air filtration systems. There were kitchens, bedrooms, TV rooms, all kinds of stuff. Everything Saddam would have needed to run his government from underground should it come to it. Let me tell you, with proper supplies a person could have survived in this underground labrynth indefenitely. I was able to get a few pics off of other guy's cameras, so I'll post those eventually.
Here's the videos of the above ground portion:
[Posted by Mark @ 8:42 PM]