CNN report from early in the Iraq war, and Defense Link.
KEVIN SITES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. I am actually standing in what we believed to be a 500-pound bomb crater. As you've seen us all week, we've been reporting from the rooftop of the building we rented in Chamchamal. Now we are actually reporting from the Iraqi position on the hillside that coalition forces hit so fiercely just two days ago.
We hiked up here today with our videophone gear and we got a chance to look around this command bunker and it is just literally obliterated. I don't have an ISB that reaches far enough down into this crater but just to give you an idea of the size, it's probably about 25 feet in circumference and about 15 feet deep. The explosion just must have been massive. And the area surrounding it has also just been blown to bits.
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[link|http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jun1996/960626-N-00000-004.html|Defense Link] story on Dhahran, SA (Khobar Towers) bombing. The picture looks similar to the NK photo, but I would estimate it's only ~ half as deep and covers a much smaller area. The Khobar bomb was a single tanker truck supposedly filled with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
The NK exposion was big.
Regards,
Scott.
