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Maliki opens Haditha dam spillways

 

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"@RamiAlLolah: Holy!! Catastrophic if true!! @seemorerocks #Maliki open #Haditha dam spillways.Massive water released. Near by villages flee

 

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"@RamiAlLolah: @seemorerocks #Barwana floating bridges flooded after maliki opened Haditha dam spillways caused massive water to be released

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11:14 AM - 26 Jun 2014

From before -

Open the floodgates: Iraqi 

army may pre-emptively use 

dam as weapon to stop ISIL 

advance

Washington Post,

25 June, 2014

The dam in Iraq may literally be about to burst. Sunni radicals from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are closing in on the country’s second-largest dam. Officials fear that the terrorist army will use it as a weapon, so they’re preparing to pre-emptively open the flood gates — on them.

Army officials have told employees at the Haditha Dam that they may need to release the floodgates. The large structure sits on the Euphrates River just over 100 miles northwest of Baghdad.

“This will lead to the flooding of the town and villages and will harm you also,” an employee told an Iraqi officer, the New York Times reported Wednesday.