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ISIS Captures Iraq's Biggest Dam: Baghdad Water Supply In Jeopardy
With the world's attention focused on the ongoing death and destruction in Gaza most have forgotten that just two months ago a vicious Al-Qaeda spinoff, after taking over the north of Iraq and a third of Syria's territory including its oil production facilities, proclaimed the creation of an Islamic State caliphate a few hundred kilometers north of Baghdad. The reason why the ISIS story fell off the front pages is that while the jihadists were consolidating their power in the caliphate region, it was believed that they have no chance of advancing onto Baghdad and the energy-rich Iraq regions south of Baghdad (and thus have little impact on the price of Brent). And yet there was one major "weakest link" - recall that a month ago we reported that "Baghdad May Lose Its Drinking Water As ISIS Approaches Dam", an outcome which would put Iraq's capital, and its 8 million residents, at the mercy of ISIS.
According to Al Arabia it is this "weakest link" that is now in play after ISIS took over Iraq's biggest dam unopposed by Kurdish fighters, who also lost three towns and an oilfield on Sunday to the Sunni militant group, witnesses said cited by Reuters.
Iraqi security officials said Wednesday that fighters for the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria were advancing on the Haditha Dam, the
second-largest in Iraq.
Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and two more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping through the region in June
Local officials said militants with the extremist group Islamic State took control of the towns of Zumar and Sinjar near the city of Mosul on Sunday, waging fierce clashes with Kurdish forces.
The French news agency AFP quoted a United Nations spokesman saying 200,000 people have fled Sinjar and said there are grave concerns for their safety.
It gets worse: control of the dam could give ISIS, which has threatened to march on Baghdad, the ability to flood major cities. This in turn will merely serve to further facilitate the expansion of ISIS as it approaches Baghdad from the north...
Meanwhile, ISIS also seized two small towns in northern Iraq after driving out Kurdish security forces, officials and residents said, according to the Associated Press.
The fresh gains by the Sunni extremist militants have forced dozens of residents to flee from the religiously mixed towns of Zumar and Sinjar, near the militant-held city of Mosul, to the northern self-ruled Kurdish region.
Earlier on Sunday, ISIS militants have successfully captured an oil field close to the Iraqi town of Zumar after fighting with Kurdish forces who had control of the area.
ISIS, which had a lightning advance through northern Iraq in June, warned residents in nearby villages along the border with Syria to leave their homes, suggesting they were planning an assault, witnesses said. ISIS fighters killed 16 Kurdish troops in attacks in northern Iraq, while 30 pro-government forces died battling the jihadists on other frontlines, officials said Saturday.
Zumar is a small Kurdish-majority outpost northwest of Mosul, which used to be under federal government control but was taken over by the Peshmerga in June.
In other attacks on Saturday, five would-be volunteer fighters were killed and 16 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a Shiite militia recruitment center in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, police said.
... and from the south.
In equally intense overnight fighting on the main front south of Baghdad, at least 23 pro-government forces were killed by relentless mortar shelling of their positions in Jurf al-Sakhr.
ISIS militants began attacking the town late Friday, killing 11 soldiers and 12 members of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, an officer and army medic said.
Another seven soldiers were wounded during a subsequent government operation against jihadist fighters in Jurf al-Sakhr, Al-Hamya and Latifiya, the sources said, claiming 37 IS fighters were killed.
Using the western city of Fallujah as a rear base, jihadists have repeatedly attacked Jurf al-Sakhr, where pro-government forces are keen to prevent a foray that would expose the nearby holy Shiite city of Karbala and further encircle Baghdad by cutting the main road to the south.
And if Baghdad does indeed fall, all those recent Crude shorts will be less than happy.
Finally, here is a visual summary of all the most recent clashes as ISIS approaches Baghdad, courtesy of the ISW:
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All this chaos is obviously planned.
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, etc.
How does this shit not eventually get to Israel, the House of Saud, etc.?
I remember that interview with the Somalia woman who escaped from a forced marriage and granted asylum in the Netherlands.She completely upset the interviewer when she said,"No,Islam is the problem"...
Didn't stick to the script....
All those who believe in religion and government are the problem.
i noticed, when i was as a child, that all
ethnocentric people are closet murderous ass holes when it comes
right down to it. they may be intelligent, productive
and loving, they may even save you from the abyss,,,,,,
but at the root and center of the big questions and
problems they become homicidal ass holes instantly.
ethnocracies are the poster child manifestation and
affirmation of this childlike and simple observation
and revelation i say.
as ethnocracies and their defenders will always lie,
exaggerate, throw tantrums, obfuscate, deny, make false
attribution and shoot first, ask questions later.
aka murderous ass holes, frequently criminal exploitative
and systemically driven to "justify" their crimes via
small print in the law in opposition to the bold body of the
statute.
You are, of course, talking about American exceptionalism?
not limited to immigrants to america
and their offspring and attributes.
they came from europe, the ones i'm
referring to, the center of the two
world wars in the 20th century.
in short, they call it blood lust.
it appears to be moving south and east
for space to breathe? and they always
move up the socio-economic and
political ladder exploiting the fears
of the angry many mob they have
systematically indentured to servitude.
I am split between waiting to see them dump all of the chemical precursors they got a few weeks ago into the water and hoping they blow the dam and record it in HD.
something in the water.
do they have any water testing
in bagdad? bag daddies bagdad?
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i would look for toxins and hallucinogens.
They are all pretty much hallucinating 24/7 over there already.
and when the drugs kick in,
then what?
you might short circuit to minute s.
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Grateful Dead ~ The Other One/Eyes of The World/The Other One 11-14-1973 San Diego.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVLfzlzwPk
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Grateful Dead Downhill from here Alpine Valley 7/17/1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OekWK7LorMw
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"That's It For The Other One III: The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get"
Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose.
It rainbow spirals round and round,
It trembles and explodes
It left a smoking crater of my mind,
I like to blow away.
But the heat came round and busted me
For smilin on a cloudy day
[Chorus]
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, comin' around in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle.
Escapin' through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That's when it all began
There was cowboy Neal
At the wheel
Of a bus to never-ever land
[Chorus]
end
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they have seen their culture raped, their children
poisoned and starved to death,
the future exploded into a thousand points
of exploitation and radioactive gamma
rays, shot to death and dismembered in
broad daylight.
now, the water is all that is left,
out of their control yet
they continue to be blamed.
you will/have see it too, in your community,
hallucinogens and all. what remains,
music and song in real time;
corruption of the spirit in continued
sacrosanct homicide, state sponsored war,
murder and systemic shadow terrorism for
power and "money" controls.
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Grateful Dead: Cryptical Envelopment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFs-FaGZWg
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"feel like a stranger....
long and crazy night" ..a.h.?
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all that jazz ....
I like how the neo-con afterbirths that still remain from the Bush-era are all chatting away on Sunday morning news saying that Iraq is unstable now because we "left" Iraq when Obama stopped the war.
Sure, assholes. Iraq was just perfect before we left. It was all Obama's fault. Full-fledged democracy was just a few weeks away before Obama pulled the plug on the whole thing! It all makes sense now!
You still subscribe to that whole right-left thing?
That is like so adoreable!
Ayatollah Khamenei, ISIS is coming for you.
You are their ultimate goal. Destroy all shia
Ayatollah, they are coming. Get to war.
Playbook! They can wipe out another generation of young men who have no choice in the matter. We will arm both sides, of course.
Unless they want to occupy Bagdad or use the power it generates there looks to be no downside for ISIS in blowing the dam. It would cause mayhem downstream that they could definitely capitalise on.
More interesting perhaps is what happened to the much vaunted Kurdish army. Defeat or withdrawl?
Can't see them benefitting from the downfall of Bagdad, oh, on second thoughts!!!
Which "tribe" runs ISIS? Who it their conduit to the MIC? How are they getting paid? What ties do they have with engineers? Any of those fucks know what they are doing with that dam? Love to see them destroy it so they can hire someone else to rebuild it, right?
Hope they get what they are after....total church state taking them back to the stone age. Sort of like Arkansas only more brown.
That "Church" state brought the world algebra, the alphabet, and most importantly, alcohol.
That is completely false. ARABS brought us algebra and the alphabet. Alexandria Egypt had the most advanced library when Europe was dark. ISLAM destroyed all that. The Egyptian heyday was prior to Islam.
The Arabs were Muslim.
You can't believe that the Roman Empire really performed math, with Roman numerals. That would drive anyone nuts.
Arabs did that, then they translated into Roman numerals.
The Arabs were NOT muslim since Islam didn't yet exist. You DO get that, right?
http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/sciencehistory.htm
You should google Alcohol first. It pre-dates all the western religions. Also the Arabs burned the great alexandria library, in part they used its manuscripts as fuel for their hot baths. Some of the manuscripts they pillaged and later re wrote history to call it preserving ancient knowledge.
Water is overrated. It's freedom that they hate.
what the fuck is Obola doing? just letting them take over the country?
20 days later:
breaking news, isis bringing ebola to irak...
- wtf ?!
What are Islamic State's chances of making a college bowl game this fall?
My sources tell me they have enough raw talent and ambition for the Tostitos Bowl. Where is Debka on this?
Maybe the Blue Bonnet Bowl.
More likely ISIS will host the World Cup.
The Prez will do everything in his power to avoid taking a hard stance on anything and everything (except immigration -ahem- reform) before elections lest Team D come out on the wrong side. such is the American electoral process nowadays - Just Don't Fucking Lose, Baby. Boots on the ground in Iraq and America will soon be viewing Youtube videos of black-clad IS psychopaths chanting "Allahu Akbar" as they saw through the spine of a US soldier/Carlyle mercenary with a rusty scimitar.
Take a hardline stance against Israel and he alienates his Big $$ fundraisers. Ban Ki Moon seems to be shouting down Israel as proxy at the moment although that's fucking toothless and meaningless. Coming down on the Palestinians risks alienating our IS friends, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt and others.
Immigration is a no brainer. Here in CO we started handing out DL's to illegal, er, undocumented immigrants a few days ago. Ten thousand came out the first day.
Per Colorado's Voter ID regs:
All voters who vote at the polls must provide identification. If you are voting by mail for the first time, you may also need to provide a photocopy of your identification.
Please note, a Social Security number (or last four digits) is not a legal form of identification for voting in person. Additionally, if any form of identification listed below shows your address, that address must be in the state of Colorado to be valid.
The following are acceptable forms of identification:
(a) A valid Colorado driver’s license;
So, that settles that. I guess we know who's voting in the next elections, legal or not. How many other states are doing this? Fucking joke of a country. Otherwise, don't expect any big moves from Team O before ballots get cast. Democrats are playing not to lose and that's it and that's all.
Apparently that's been the Demonrat activist plan all along. Get 'em their driver licenses and that's all they need to vote. The first presidential order from Team R, if we get one, is to nullify all of those licenses.
dont be stupid.....if and when the R's get in it will be business as usual-thier corporate backers need people that will work for $8/hr, and will also need many maids, butlers, babysitters and Gardeners for their country club estates
time to buy some Brent Calls, and don't forget Libya everyone evacuated there people out the last two weeks, and they really think the militants are going to allow 500k barrels a day to leave the port, really?
Don't fart in the pool.
Is that a God Dam?
ISIS' water (The Haditha Dam aka Hadith Damn) will break signifying it (Isis) giving birth to the beast
That is actually a possible scenario. If ISIS eventually headquarters their caliphate in Turkey it would be Gog ruling from Magog...Game on.
...and Brent opens lower!
From the crystal clear depths of Baghdad Damn. (sp) Try our new sepsis flavoured "ISIS" bog water.
We filter our water with that extra special Beijing (riverpig) flavour...
"Infused" is the word you are looking for, I think.
Dams are from the devil. We need to get rid of them. Go IS!
Water is VERY unIslamic.
I think a fartwa is in order here.
Dam.
An outside observer of all this would have to conclude that Obama is on the side of the Caliphate crazies. It's a damn shame no one in the mainstream media is willing to call this pos on it either.
It's McCain that's feeling all warm and fuzzy. ISIS is his boys.
No defense of poor ole Bushie here but could we please get a a few snaps for some good old fashioned Hopey bashing? Bush didn't have the media on his side but you guys get to pile on with Hopium's allies and your outrage. Bush is hopelessly out gunned and even out of office. Meanwhile.....hopium gets to play golf while working to torch the middle east and the homeland. Yeah.....lets kick GW some more. Focus pepo focus......
ISIS-commandeered US weapons in Iraq have hugely facilitated ISIS, but US is only interested in going to war with Syria and Russia -- not at all interested in stopping ISIS.
remember this?
Tone Loc-Next Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URhtf0x5Q1U
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later for isis. money, influence
and terror has a friggin' hierarchy
and temporal schedule bro
,
isis is an ace in the hole.
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time will come, they all go
"solo on your back". t.l.
at that table,
at all tables, "speak up for
what you know" i say.
right now the general consensus from all highly paid IOC security managers, highly paid private security companies, experts and everyone down here is that there is NO way ISIL will take Baghdad...it will get fugly in Baghdad no doubt they say but to take it? not happening. and NO way they will be able to take the south because it is primarily Shia and the Iraqis will do everything they can to protect it....
yeah past performance is no indicator of future performance but i think they are all sorely underestimating the ISIL who are quickly becoming a 'cohesive' fighting force and, much like a zombie invasion, become more powerful as the days go on - they convert their victims into brain dead zombies, take the guns and money and roll on.
HOLY FUCK THAT'S THE MODEL! IRAQ IS BASICALLY UNDER ZOMBIE INVASION.
ISIS could get rich if they export that water to California.
Tel Aviv already has that covered
Customer: I'd like a glass of ISIS water, please.
Waiter: Ice water?
Customer: No, ISIS water.
Waiter: Oh, the good stuff! Coming right up.
Maybe if we use nice words with them they will let Toledo borrow some.
first open the gates and flood the city
second close the gates and deprive the city
checkmate
Not enough water comes out to flood anything much if they just open the gates. They have to knock a hole in the wall.
Look at the big picture
All of this is Jewish plan to destabelize the middle east and Eurasia to redraw the maps and break up the bigger states.
Jews created the Arab Spring with media and social media, look what they achieved in Egypt, sealed in Gaza.
As Chris Hedges said in his 2010 viral video on Gaza, "In the end we will all be terrorists"
And this is why we scream louder and do more and go all in on Gaza.
Complete garbage Jew hater.
I wish you were here with me, you demonic jewish satanist. I would like to slap you across your face
then push you down and the ground , get on top of you and destroy you with the truth and watch you melt.
And I am a woman!!!
Settle down young lady! Now that you have outed yourself as a woman the lonely baby boomers here on ZH will be falling all over themselves trying to woo you.
Im not young.....lol
But I am honest, and in all fact that is the greatest human quality one can possess.
It has worked for me all my life, and I get paid in spades for it every single time
I am in a jam...:)
yes you are mama ;-)
Yeah and your alias is COSMOS. I know. You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you.
You have serious anger and hatred problems. See a shrink.
No counter arguement, just spew your venom and accusations to anyone challenging another hasbara troll. Typical!
What's to counter? It's made up garbage without basis, put forth by someone with a hatred toward Jews.
oh grow up and stop yer fucking whining......a favorite Jewish pastime when they are held accountable for thier acts........"wah....youre an anti semitic!-im gonna run home and tell mama!" bullshit
I'm not Jewish.
ugh! sounds like you have a heavy flow this month.....relax and take a Midol.....
So religious people and all of their horrific actions are off the table for criticism?
Lots of countries with active insurgencies forget to protect their water supplies.
Not suspicious at all.
Desert life has never been easy. Scorpions, Gila Monsters, fucking camels, rattlesnakes and Arabs. Oh throw a tarantula or two in there.
Whose freakin idea was to let them have money and weapons?
Ah, the old Quantum of Solace routine. The real liquid gold is H2O.
Water is the new oil. I recall seen the film "the corporation" where a San Francisco Company tried to privatize water in south or central America, and the people stood up. This insanity of greed knows no bounds. The worship of money as if it were a God. These people need to all be shot, and that is coming.
BTW I am a master astrologer and one of the reasons they want a fake or engineer a pandemic is because now IS the astrological time for them being shot, and they know it. They have always used astrology for 6000 yrs. it is the time the people put THEM in FEMA camps worldwide. The global protests scare them. It all backfired, the social media they used for color revolutions are used to organize against them. What they did before was to not allow people to organize, but now it can be done very easily.
Note: San Francisco guy had the FBI raid his apartment saying he used some type of browsing ( I forget the name) that was private to buy bomb making materials. So they let him go, he was connected to Gavin Newsom mayor of SF and later Lt. Gov of CA. Later thhey had a nationwide man hunt for him. He was out there tweeting and facebookin in the city for days. In the end an UBER driver called the cops, he was sitting by the bay.
So I am the only one who said "they can't track you with your phone, or he was fake" you can't have it both ways.
One of the things that is happening now is that science is destroying religion.
We have 25,000 year cycle and that is coming to an end. At the same time the change of an age. We have been in the age of Pisces for over 2000 years, as we enter the age of Aquarius the age of science will rule. Its not all hearts and roses, it is control of weather, earthquakes, end of the nuclear family, end of religion, machine age. If you pay attention it has been upon us for some time, socialism, communism, fascism.
This is the begining of the last act of this cycle, and the closing act, which was the age of Pisces.
The truth, the end of the end of the end, that which can not be changed and the sacrificial (pisces) lamb polarity in Vrigo.
http://copiosa.org/images/Pieta_heads_bouguereau.jpg
According to high brow astrologer Robert Zollar the age of Aquarius is greedy elites who control every aspect of life, the weather, earthquakes and all human activity.
Why? Most astrologers forget that Aquarius is co ruled by Saturn. And Pluto is in Saturns sign now Capricorn and in mutual reception with Saturns ruler in Plutos sign Scorpio. I see it as last chance Motel for us humans.
So they released a pandemic to keep us inside.
trust me on this, i am right.
look AT GAZA!
Listen, CIA Factbook Fuckers!
I don't give a shit. It's not our business. Fuckit, Get out of all the wrinkled unwiped shit holes! I don't appreciate paying for it! Fuck YOU REALLY
Stop pumping this vile spue. GET OUT. GET OUT!
If ISIS can get my girl to shut her fucking mouth I'm joining their club. What kind of fees are involved?
"ISIS took over Iraq's biggest dam unopposed by Kurdish fighters"
Damn! I mean Dayum!
ZOMBIES!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The Reformation of the Shia Crescent presents a clear danger to SA and I. After Assad reclaims Aleppo his forces will swing east and rout ISIS. The west is led by fools who still think it's the 1930s and the other side can't fight back.
Bitchez.
Self censored
ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia's oil is getting less so it wants to capture more oilfields. Al-Qaeda is supported by Saudi Arabia's rich ppl (Probably by Saudi Arabia itself) Idi Amin the cannibal took refuge in Saudi Arabia. Many other dictators & top terrorists take shelter in Saudi Arabia , all in the name of their religion. But Saudi Arabia is supported by America It is possible that America remote controls Saudi Arabia terrorists coming out of it indirectly so that war keeps going on & war industry keeps going on because war is an enterprise of profit for America and its C-I-A. Snowden also says similar. AMERICA IS THE CAUSE OF ALL TERRORISM IN THE WORLD
Can we all pray to have Israel wander the desert again for the next 400 years for crimes against humanity? ANd dont sell them any water....
British SAS. "Gonna blow US foreign policy sky high." Next up Czar poopie pants.
What complete drop kicks, letting a major water source get captured, these drop kicks deserve whatever is coming their way.
i wonder if the ISIL can operate it?
Hopefully they had enough commonsense not to kill all of the Dam's technicians....mmmm, maybe not, they probably think 'its a Dam, how hard can it be, when the Dam gets full water runs over the top, no problem.'
Something doesn't ring true about ISIS... How on earth are they so militarily successful when all before them have fought hard over a long time to gain bits and pieces of ground.
How is a rebel sect somehow performing like a major standing army??
no facebook, no bitchez on the phone, only focusing on the target. their only hobby when job is done is to fuck goats.
consentration gap with us army is significant.
No bathing suits allowed when swimming in the Dam, only full burqas!
so you have a bunch of Iraqi Homer Simpsons in control of a dam... what could possibly go wrong?>