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Dear grexers with ground combat training/experience: Is there some plausable way to capture heavily armed hostile soldiers who are actively defending a well-fortified building? (My understanding is that the missles were used because smaller stuff was just bouncing off the heavy reinforced concrete "armor" of the structure - anyone know more about this?) Might armored engineering equipment suitable for such a task have been available, and (if so), how long might it have taken to get deployed & engaged? If a well "dug in" hostile seriously does not want to be taken alive (a pretty reasonable viewpoint for Saddam's sons), what are the best ways to do it anyway (and how good are they)? If an otherwise-unremarkable building turns out to be well-fortified and well- defended, and supposedly contains high-level enemy leaders, how likely should (an) excape tunnel(s) be considered? How fast can such a tunnel be dug in a siege situation?
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