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Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam, oilfield in victory over Kurds
Yahoo! News ^ | Aug 3, 2014 | Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman

Posted on 08/03/2014 9:14:50 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping through the region in June.

Capture of the Mosul Dam after an offensive of barely 24 hours could give the Sunni militants the ability to flood major Iraqi cities or withhold water from farms, sharply raising the stakes in their bid to topple Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armenia; azerbaijan; chaldeans; iran; iraq; iraqdam; isis; islamicstate; jordan; kurd; kurdistan; kurds; russia; syria; turkey
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To: chessplayer

Seriously doubt that. The peshmerga have engaged ISIS before and generally kicked their butts. Don’t know enough about the tactical situation to tell, but sometimes when fighting amateurs you retreat - even give up a too-good to refuse prize - in order to get them to overextend. Then you cut them off and apart.


21 posted on 08/03/2014 2:20:52 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Next stop Baghdad-—The seige of Baghdad is coming. My money is on the Islamic State.

If whoever defends Baghdad capitulates like most have where the Islamic State has already attacked, then they might take it. But Baghdad is so large that they almost have to have many troops and citizens come over to their side just to have some control over so large a city.

It does seem so far that the IS fighters are the only ones who've done any serious fighting.

22 posted on 08/03/2014 3:17:21 PM PDT by Will88
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To: piytar

Seriously doubt that. The peshmerga have engaged ISIS before and generally kicked their butts. Don’t know enough about the tactical situation to tell, but sometimes when fighting amateurs you retreat - even give up a too-good to refuse prize - in order to get them to overextend.


By giving them that dam? They can kill half a million with it. Even if they are forced out again, they can blow the dam before leaving.


23 posted on 08/04/2014 7:00:05 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

You make an excellent point.


24 posted on 08/04/2014 7:40:20 AM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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