You can bet the leaders left dressed like women months ago.
Follow the money , many will be popping up in Libya to head into Egypt . The muslim brotherhood in Turkey is playing chess and these guys are causing the conditions for the rise of the Ottoman Empire (No one becomes the real Calif without the support of the muslim brotherhood but Al Baghdadi is still very useful to them )
Don’t be surprised if the Iranians take Mosul by flooding it.
“Don’t be surprised if the Iranians take Mosul by flooding it.”
Downriver from Mosul on the Tigris are Baghdad and Basra, which are major assets of the Shia.
Except for the Kurdish area in the North, the Iraqi population is clustered along the two great rivers. The great bulk of the Arab population lives within walking distance of one of the rivers. Unlike most Arab Cuisine, a big roast river fish is a typical Iraqi dish.
Flooding the river would be wanton genocide. Not that there are not many fans of genocide among them, just that it would hit both sides of the sectarian divide unacceptably hard.
Blowing the Mosul Dam would also be quite a feat for the Iranians - until they have nukes.