Where is Noah when you need him?
Yeah but everybody wants it intact for economic reasons.
Has it not occurred to anyone to open wide the floodgates NOW and start draining the reservoir?
This dam was built at a very poor site from an engineering standpoint. The underlying rock is porous. The dam has needed continuous grouting from day one. One of Saddam’s masterpieces.
if true, may God deliver those poor souls and forgive us for our part in all this.
If ISIS were to kill 1.5 million people with this plan, you have to go nuclear on their asses. Plain and simply. You let them know if that happens they will be turned into glass, and their positions a parking lot.
Thanks, Obama!
Why should I care? Every muslime on the face of this earth wants me dead. Ditto. Blow the dam.
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. (NOTE verse 8)
NAHUM 1:1-8
1
This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.
The Lord’s Anger against Nineveh
2
The Lord is a jealous God,
filled with vengeance and rage.
He takes revenge on all who oppose him
and continues to rage against his enemies!
3
The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great,
and he never lets the guilty go unpunished.
He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm.
The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
4
At his command the oceans dry up,
and the rivers disappear.
The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade,
and the green forests of Lebanon wither.
5
In his presence the mountains quake,
and the hills melt away;
the earth trembles,
and its people are destroyed.
6
Who can stand before his fierce anger?
Who can survive his burning fury?
His rage blazes forth like fire,
and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.
7
The Lord is good,
a strong refuge when trouble comes.
He is close to those who trust in him.
8
But He will sweep away his enemies
in an overwhelming flood.
He will pursue his foes
into the darkness of night.
I thought the Iraqi “special forces” took that back last year. Did they lose it again?
When I hear Iraqi “special” forces, I often wonder if they have to wear mittens instead of gloves?
And the downside is?
[[Engineers from an Italian company have been tasked with fixing the Mosul Dam’s foundations ]]
Oh they are so screwed .
I can see it now , they are reinforcing it with pasta and cheese.
The lake behind it needs to be drains and they are not going to it . It will blow one day.
“Allied” troops, allies of who?
How did they ever think it a good idea to build a dam upstream of all the country’s population? Read detailed article on New Yorker, I think it was, earlier today, that paints a rather dire picture of the situation. Idiots built dam on gypson, which is now washing away. Might kill a million people when it collapses, which seems quite possible. Hope there are no US troops downstream when this happens.
Meh
Bfl
Most dangerous dam in the world. Been pumping grout under it almost continuously since built. Got ignored in recent fighting, worse now. No good fix except to build another dam further downstream. Idiots.
Heh heh heh