Emerging from his fortified bunker, the MILF chairman, Salamat Hashim, was all smiles.

BBC: The holy warriors of Mindanao

The site, called Fordow, is in a fortified bunker and seen as largely immune to U.S. or Israeli military strikes.

WSJ: Iran Cools Nuclear Work as Vote Looms

Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.

CNN: Barack Obama slept here