ISIS Booby Traps Mosul Dam, Which Could Unleash 18-Metre-High Wall Of Water On Iraq’s Second Largest City -- National Post/The Telegraph
The American-backed offensive to recapture Iraq’s biggest dam stalled Monday, as fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham rigged part of the area with booby traps and remotely triggered bombs.
Whilst a series of air strikes by American F-18 fighter jets reportedly sent most of the jihadists fleeing from the central parts of Mosul dam, a network of landmines and planted explosives they left behind impeded Kurdish ground forces from recapturing the strategically vital terrain.
“The jihadists have escaped from their positions beside the water pumps – the most important levers for the dam,” said Gen Kawa Kawani, the spokesman for the Kurdish special forces. “But we cannot enter the area because of the explosives.”
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Update: ‘World’s most dangerous’: Iraq’s retaken Mosul Dam could cause 500,000 deaths in days -- RT
My Comment: Just when you think that the situation cannot get any worse .... it does.
2 comments:
They are saying that it's the approaches to the dam that are mined, not the dam. Even if the dam itself is mined it's a lot harder to achieve a major structural failure than is thought.
The problem is the subsequent refugee flows.
The only people left south of the dam are people that hate us. It is pretty much a bi-cultural area or a monocultural area with 2 flavors.
I agree with James it is harder to achieve a structural failure.
During the 2nd Iraq war there were all these nice western trained engineers or engineering student that use to tag bridges showing insurgents exactly were to place the explosives.
The U.S. military became as proficients at repairing bridges or creating work-arounds as the North Koreans became at replacing railroad track destroyed by the U.S. Air Force.
Did the engineers go back home?
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