From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Maybe its both - planes buried in rocky dirt covered by blowing sand.  The
sandy "desert" doesn't go down to the center of the earth.

"Geo"  wrote in message news:42e2e6a4{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yes in some pictures, in others it looks like sand
> http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_mig_buried_iraq3.htm
>
> Hard to say without more information.
>
> Geo.

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