Mosul Dam: Haider al-Abadi is too busy fighting ISIL

The scenarios around the Mosul Dam collapsing are both real and terrifying.

A general view of the dam in Mosul

While it was written that God warned Noah about the coming flood, in Iraq this week it was the US embassy who issued an alert warning that the Mosul Dam could burst. Such is the potential for "catastrophic failure" that the embassy advised that US citizens should leave the Tigris flood plain.


As if Iraq hasn't suffered enough the scenarios around the Mosul Dam collapsing are both real and terrifying and should provide all interested parties with an urgent wake-up call.

If the dam bursts more than a million and a half people are at direct risk of being hit by a lethal tsunami some estimate could be up to 24 metres high. 

Six million more could be affected with the predicted flow taking out power stations, agriculture, countless homes and even washing up in Baghdad - some 400 miles downriver - with 13ft of water shutting down the airport.