MESOP SHORT CUTS : Iraq Says ISIL Cuts Off Ephurates Water From Central, South Areas

7.4.2014 – kunanet – BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s office said Sunday the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) blocked flow of Ephurates river water from the central and southern Iraq.

“The ISIL and their baathist supporters … in the city of Fallujah have committed a dangerous act … by cutting off water from Center and South areas,” thus threatening lives of people, the office said in a statement. “We are compelled to use maximum force to save lives of people and farm lands” by preventing “those murderers from using Fallujah as a launch pad for their crimes,” it added. ISIL cut off the river flow at Fallujah, causing decline in water levels in provinces in the center and the south of Iraq. The statement called on the citizens in the Anbar province to support the armed forces in cracking down on the the ISIL militants. http://www.kuna.net.kw