Disclosure of a secret message from Obama to Ebadi on Mosul Dam

[ltr]Disclosure of a secret message from Obama to Ebadi on Mosul Dam[/ltr]

 Since 22/03/2016 17:20 pm (Baghdad time)
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[ltr]It's up to the 21 th of January, the day he met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi US Foreign Minister John Kerry on the sidelines of the Davos forum in Switzerland, where he handed over the last of the devotional character of President Barack Obama a message asking him to urgent action regarding the Mosul Dam.[/ltr]
[ltr]Secret of Obama's message was not to Abadi confirmed by two US officials told Reuters has never published the news about regarding the organization of "Daash" terrorist or sectarian division in Iraq, but they are related to a potential catastrophe because of the deteriorating situation of the largest dam in the country and the Middle East, which could result in the collapse of the flood which killed tens of thousands and cause an environmental disaster.[/ltr]
[ltr]And it indicates the intervention of US President personally to the extent of the collapse of the Mosul Dam issued a list of US interests in Iraq, reflecting fears that its collapse to undermine American efforts lead to the installation of the Government of Abadi and complexity of the war on the organization of "Daash" terrorist, according to Reuters.[/ltr]
[ltr]This intervention also reflects a growing sense of frustration, the US administration sensed that Baghdad does not take the threat seriously enough and that, as explained in interviews with officials at the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense and the US Agency for International Development and other agencies.[/ltr]
[ltr]He asked US official, like the rest of the sources on condition of anonymity, "They Atthagulwn and slow to act in this matter."[/ltr]
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[ltr]The Iraqi government has declined to officially comment on these assertions or on Obama's message.[/ltr]
[ltr]According to a US government document published in late February, he said that between 500 thousand and 1.47 million Iraqis are living in the most vulnerable of the other risk areas along the Tigris River, "will not stay probably alive," the repercussions of the flood unless they are evacuated to safe areas .[/ltr]
[ltr]The water will wash away on the way to hundreds of kilometers shells did not explode and chemicals, as well as the bodies and buildings.[/ltr]
[ltr]The document says that the human, physical, economic and environmental losses and widespread system of governance will lead to crashes and the rule of law.[/ltr]
[ltr]The two American officials declined to disclose the content of Obama's message to be exact.[/ltr]
[ltr]It was not possible to make sure the impact of the message to the Iraqi government, but that after 11 days of delivery exempted political party to the Minister of Water Resources minister Mohsen al-Shammari of the responsibility for the dam and that as reported in published data.[/ltr]
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[ltr]The minister Hun openly of the danger posed by the dam.[/ltr]
[ltr]A source said the Iraqi government has been informed of the Mosul Dam own plans that US relations Bachammra ally, Muqtada al-Sadr's anti-US strongly deteriorated to the point that the minister was withdrawing from meetings attended by the US ambassador to Iraq, Stuart Jones.[/ltr]
[ltr]An official at the US embassy in Baghdad confirmed that al-Shammari had been refusing to attend meetings with Jones.[/ltr]
[ltr]The official said that at one point was informed US officials that al-Shammari sat in an adjacent room and listened to what was discussed at the meeting via the audio circuit. However, the official said that cooperation with al-Abadi was walking without any problems.[/ltr]
[ltr]Shammari did not publicly comment on the meetings. He had pointed out that the predictions of the dam is only an excuse to send more foreign troops into Iraq.[/ltr]
[ltr]On the second of March, Iraq has signed a contract worth 296 million dollars with the Trevi Italian group to strengthen the dam, which has been needed for this consolidation since its construction in the early eighties the veins of gypsum, which can be dissolved in water.[/ltr]
[ltr]Italy said it would send 450 soldiers to help protect the dam.[/ltr]
[ltr]• disturbing study[/ltr]
[ltr]The US officials said Obama's decision to send his message to Ebadi was motivated disturbing reports of American intelligence and a new study by the US Army Corps of Engineers showed that the dam is stable, larger than the previous beliefs degree.[/ltr]
[ltr]Said Paul Salem, vice president of the Middle East Institute, a research institution in Washington that if the dam collapsed, what would result from the chaos and damage that may cause the collapse of the government Abadi, an ally of the United States and represents a black dot in will be remembered in history for Obama.[/ltr]
[ltr]The officials and analysts Americans and Iraqis that the efforts to repair the dam located on the 48 kilometers to the northwest of the city of Mosul disrupted by the chaos that prevailed in the security situation in Iraq and the political divisions in Baghdad in addition to not check the warnings in previous years as well as cultural divisions.[/ltr]
[ltr]The US officials said al-Abadi, which increase burdens because of the war on Daash political differences and the budget deficit as a result of falling oil prices - now focuses on the dam and oversees the efforts to fix it.[/ltr]
[ltr]A senior official said the US Agency for International Development, "we got to a point where there was no doubt that they (the Iraqis) are paying their interest in it."[/ltr]
[ltr]However, the Trevi company says that the site preparation work will take four months. And it faces the dam used to generate electricity and a length of 3.5 kilometers greater risk between April and June as a result of rising water levels due to melting snow.[/ltr]
[ltr]Officials said it must be used for the transfer of the dam injection materials from Turkey trucks because the former factory is located in Mosul and is now under the control of the organization "Daash" terrorist.[/ltr]
[ltr]• Tale Swiss cheese[/ltr]
[ltr]He says some Iraqi officials that Washington launches high alarms with respect to the dam itself to absolve from responsibility. 
The officials added that the United States was able to seek a solution to it permanence more before withdrawing its combat troops from the country in 2011, but simply continued operation of the dam at the lowest possible cost. 
There is no sign that the dam collapse is imminent. 
But the dam was built on what he described as a senior official of Agency for International Development as a "contrast geological Swiss cheese." 
He added that a wall of water 14 meters in height will plunge the city of Mosul, within four hours of the collapse of the dam and would be equivalent to roughly tidal wave that hit Japan in 2011 at the height of the disaster. 
And it stopped maintenance work after the organization "Daash" terrorist dominated the dam for two weeks in August 2014 which led to the dispersion of workers and destroying equipment. Work resumed in recent months, but officials said that to prevent the collapse of the dam need for international expertise. 
Although the full report prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers did not publish has appeared on the site of the Iraqi parliament last month on the Internet on January 30 slides summarizing the findings. 
She said one of the slides that everything that has been compiled from information in the past year indicates that the Mosul Dam is in danger of collapse, a much greater extent than was previously thought, and that this risk greater today than they were a year ago. 
A senior Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the US assessment contributed to the decision to complete the contract with the Trevi Group after talks lasted for months. 
And studied Richard Kaufman, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Arkansas radar images taken by satellites and found that the dam down in the soil of eight millimeters each year. 
He said that the resumption of the injection work represents only a temporary solution and that it requires a long-term solution.[/ltr]
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