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40 underground shelters in Baghdad

Iraqi Army’s monstrous size makes for easy targetting
IN CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA. Jan 25 : US pilots said Thursday they are inflicting heavy damage on tactical Iraqi targets. Including Republican Guard ground forces. In part because the sheer size of the Iraqi military makes targetting easier, reports AP.
"it's a monstrously big army. Basically, when you hit the ground, you're going to get the army someplace." said Capt. Jeff Gurney. 32. who flies an F-I6A fighter bombers
Lt. Col. John Marshall, the squadron's commander, said allied fighters had inflicted "a tot of damage" on the Republican Guards and that craters pocked the landscape.
Another pilot, however said, he was not convinced the
bomberment of Iraqi forces from the skies would erode their fighting power.
Returning pitots said more Iraqi aircraft were in the skies Thursday than at any time since the war began a week ago. but that Iraqi anti-aircraft fire is teas frequent.
With mostly clear skies, many sorties began Just before dawn to get jets over I heir tar gets at daybreak.
Gumey was flying hta ninth combat mission when he led several F 16As In a series of at tacks on an airfield and two fuel depots Thursday morning
"1 rolled In on one fuel dump and saw large fire and pillars of smoke going up io 20.000 feet (7.000 meters), he said
Maj. Bobby Jernigan. 37. also led one of five strikes by F-16As Into Kuwait on Thursday The take-offs were staggered to maintain nearly continuous pressure on the Iraqis, and pilots reported hitting Republican Guard artillery concentra lions, tanks and division head quarters.
Jernigan described a panoroma of devastation along the Kuwaiti border where the Republican Guard are positioned..
There's a tot of btown-up stuff on the ground up there right now", he said. "We saw a bunch of bad guys on the ground We saw tanks and ar tiltery. troops and encampments.
The pitots said they could see signs of the bombings that preceded their sorties.
"You can see the spots where B-52s came through, because B-52s carry a tot of bombs and there Is a big long swath of craters". Jernigan said. There are areas of the warth that are just blackened circles - that s probably where some cluster bombs went off and covered an area
Xinhua adds : A British Engineer said Thursday that has up to 40 underground shelters to protect Its aircraft and armed forces from bom bardment
Despite continued allied bombardment only a small number of Iraqi aircraft were destroyed.