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| Iraq | |
| Official: Mosul Dam at risk of collapse | |
| 2015-11-10 | |
| [Rudaw] A Kurdish official claimed Monday there is a risk djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam--Iraq's largest dam--might collapse, said the central Iraqi government would be responsible for any damage to the dam and urged it to start maintenance work on the structure. "It is the Iraqi government's responsibility to repair sites of the dam that are about to collapse," Ari Harsin, a Kurdistan Democratic Party MP in the Kurdistan parliament, told Rudaw Monday. The dam annually needs maintenance, but "it has been so long since it has not been worked on and neglected by the Iraqi government," he claimed. "To repair the dam's shortcomings $250 million to $500 million has to be allotted." He also said the US has recognized the risk to the strategic dam, and looked into finding private contractors to conduct maintenance and repairs. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... managed to capture the dam in July 2014 when the group seized Iraq's second largest city Mosul, but the Kurdish Peshmerga reclaimed the dam soon after despite the dam still being in the bully boys' hands.
Mosul Dam, once called Saddam Dam, was constructed in 1983. It is located on the Tigris River in the western province of Nineveh, upstream from the city of Mosul. It is the fourth-largest reservoir in the Arab world, with a capacity of about 8 billion cubic meters, and provides electricity to 1.7 million residents in Mosul. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 what will happen when everything starts failing? Europe is already seeing the answer to that question, DarthVader. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-10 20:24 |
| #4 This will be Bush's fault, you know |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-10 15:27 |
| #3 The Marsh Arabs better batten down the hootches. |
| Posted by: JHH 2015-11-10 14:30 |
| #2 I have been wondering about things like this. With all the chaos the past couple decades, and with Islamic upkeep the way it is, how long before the major infrastructure starts to fail? Damns, power stations, sewage (ok that never worked anyway but still), etc. are all close to failing I think. Given that the Arab world relies on 50% of it caloric intake from other nations and with their countries in a constant state of war, what will happen when everything starts failing? Well besides the famine, disease and death unlike anything ever seen in modern times that is. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-11-10 10:33 |
| #1 At dusk the Flyash Liberation Army and Washateria began it's epic March. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-10 08:07 |