Can you imagine what eventually would have happened if this dam wasn't recaptured?
Strategic Structure From ISIS
By Charles Poladian@CharlieAllDay[email protected]
on August 18 2014 12:22 PM
Kurdish forces claim they have recaptured the Mosul Dam on Monday. Reuters
Updated 2:30 p.m.: A Kurdish military spokesman said troops are in "full control" of Mosul Dam and the surrounding area.
Kurdish forces said they recaptured Mosul Dam in northern Iraq from Islamic State militants Monday following U.S. airstrikes that supported Kurdish troops in an operation that began Friday. The dam, built in the 1980s, is the biggest in Iraq and has been under control of the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, since August. The recapture was significant, not only because it provides electricity to the city of Mosul, but because destruction of the dam could wreak havoc.
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Strategic Structure From ISIS
By Charles Poladian@CharlieAllDay[email protected]
on August 18 2014 12:22 PM
Kurdish forces claim they have recaptured the Mosul Dam on Monday. Reuters
Updated 2:30 p.m.: A Kurdish military spokesman said troops are in "full control" of Mosul Dam and the surrounding area.
Kurdish forces said they recaptured Mosul Dam in northern Iraq from Islamic State militants Monday following U.S. airstrikes that supported Kurdish troops in an operation that began Friday. The dam, built in the 1980s, is the biggest in Iraq and has been under control of the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, since August. The recapture was significant, not only because it provides electricity to the city of Mosul, but because destruction of the dam could wreak havoc.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/mosul-dam-why-us-aided-kurdish-forces-recapture-strategic
