These tunnels are also ventilated and provide access to other palaces, governmental facilities and Baghdad International Airport.
His time as a Sky News correspondent included him being the first non-American to broadcast live from Baghdad International Airport, a record which prompted the Daily Telegraph to write in a leader on 12 April entitled "Where was the BBC?": "The BBC refused to acknowledge…that American troops were in Baghdad, even though you had only to switch to Sky to see them there."
Another trial, with the same set of whistleblowers, concerned a separate $16.8 million contract awarded to Custer Battles to provide security at Baghdad International Airport.
Axelrod was one of CBS News' embedded correspondents in Iraq and was the first TV reporter to broadcast live from Saddam International Airport (now Baghdad International Airport) after its takeover by American forces.
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The aircraft took off from Baghdad International Airport en route to Bahrain International Airport at 06:30 UTC with an experienced crew of three: two Belgians, 38-year-old Captain Eric Genotte and 29-year-old First Officer Steeve Michielsen, and a Briton, 54-year-old flight engineer Mario Rofail.
The Victory Fuel Point fuel thefts was a series of thefts of diesel and jet fuel in 2007 and 2008 from the United States Army's Victory Fuel Point and Camp Liberty fuel depots in the Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.