UK aid deliveries in Iraq 'imminent'

BBC ^ | 9 August 2014 Last updated at 22:31 GMT

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The Royal Air Force (RAF) will start dropping humanitarian aid supplies in northern Iraq "imminently", the foreign secretary has said.

Philip Hammond said the aid would help thousands of members of the Yazidi minority, who are trapped on a mountain after fleeing from Islamist militants.

Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama discussed the situation over the phone earlier.

No 10 said they had agreed "a way must be found... to avert a genocide".

The Downing Street spokesman said estimates of the number of those trapped ranged from 50,000 to 150,000.

He said there was little information about what supplies they had with them.

"They face a desperate choice between risking dehydration and starvation or descending into the barbaric hands of... terrorists [from the group now calling itself the Islamic State]," he said.Safe passage

The spokesman said Mr Cameron and Mr Obama had agreed the immediate priority was to get supplies to those trapped on Mount Sinjar, with the UK joining the US in delivering aid.

"Both leaders also agreed that aid drops are not a long-term solution, and that a way must be found to get these people to safety and to avert a genocide," the spokesman said.

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Admirable. Though I don’t think the UK could give a penny if it weren’t in the news. Same goes for the UK: don’t support Islamist and keep your dropping of humanitarian aid in the UK for the homeless and those who can’t afford to pay their electricity bills during winter in the UK.

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- There lefties are already screaming America must take in all the “refugees” in Iraq and GAZA…

- Check your ammo

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Not a word about Christians. All about this sect which is a rather weird cultish whatever.