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		tdyen on March 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time... Why didn't the failsafe dam get built? It's a perfect big infrastructure project for IMF types to fund?

gambiting on March 4, 2016 [–]

The work on the failsafe dam has actually started a few years ago but it got only 40% finished due to political tensions. It's not done and it wouldn't be able to hold anything as it currently is.

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