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Iraq general: 70% of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar are dead
American Thinker ^ | August 11, 2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 08/11/2014 5:04:04 PM PDT by Rashputin

Iraq general: 70% of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar are dead By Rick Moran

An Iraqi general told a reporter for The Telegraph - the only western reporter who has flown over Mount Sinjar - that 70% of the Yahidis oin the rocky hill will die because of the lack of humanitarian aid.

I was on board an Iraqi Army helicopter, and watched as hundreds of refugees ran towards it to receive one of the few deliveries of aid to make it to the mountain. The helicopter dropped water and food from its open gun bays to them as they waited below. General Ahmed Ithwany, who led the mission, told me: “It is death valley. Up to 70 per cent of them are dead.”

Two American aid flights have also made it to the mountain, where they have dropped off more than 36,000 meals and 7,000 gallons of drinking water to help the refugees, and last night two RAF C-130 transport planes were also on the way.

However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; iraq; iraqichristians; kurdistan; yahidis; yazidi; yazidis
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1 posted on 08/11/2014 5:04:04 PM PDT by Rashputin
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To: Rashputin
What gets me is that all the atrocities that ISIS is committing is hardly reported in the msm. A complete cover up of the news in order to make Obama look better.
2 posted on 08/11/2014 5:08:34 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Rashputin

How many more must die because of Obama and his EXEMPT RINOs?

3 posted on 08/11/2014 5:08:49 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Rashputin

So tragic. I’ve seen some postings on FaceBook made by Mosul Christians and Yezedi’s and they are posting things like “God Bless America, they are the only ones helping us. Shame on the Arab world”, and I think how pathetic our help has been. What a terrible situation to be in.

Picture of Yezedis to be buried alive: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=679093338842372&set=a.104622386289473.9626.100002251368104&type=1&theater


4 posted on 08/11/2014 5:09:32 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Rashputin

Another Hussein obama success story


5 posted on 08/11/2014 5:10:36 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Diogenesis

Bush’s fault


6 posted on 08/11/2014 5:10:43 PM PDT by Klemper
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To: Rashputin

I don’t want to just blame this on Obama. I want all those that voted for him to share in this bloodshed.


7 posted on 08/11/2014 5:11:15 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Rashputin
The humanitarian version of voting 'present'.

Obama dithers - people die. Its how he rolls.

8 posted on 08/11/2014 5:11:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Rashputin

Bump


9 posted on 08/11/2014 5:12:22 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: skeeter

But he said if he was elected he would be working 24/7 for us—no vacations.


10 posted on 08/11/2014 5:14:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Rashputin

This is infuriating. It’s understandable that getting supplies to these people is difficult given the terrain, but the rest and delayed action are unforgivable. Besides, I read France, Britain, Australia, etc. are also trying to get ‘humanitarian’ aid to them. Whilst humanitarian is needed that won’t address the cause. Instead these countries should act directly against IS. The Kurds can do so much & are fully stretched, given their numbers are limited & their weapons are older than IS too.


11 posted on 08/11/2014 5:14:55 PM PDT by odds
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To: Rashputin

Unbelievable. History will not be kind to The Obama Years.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 5:18:12 PM PDT by McGruff ("We're Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable, and Self-Reliant Iraq" - Obama in 2011)
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To: Rashputin

I’ll go with 40-50% but not 70%.


13 posted on 08/11/2014 5:18:52 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Rashputin

Headline doesn’t match the body of the article.


14 posted on 08/11/2014 5:22:57 PM PDT by keat
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To: Rashputin
"However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact."

"OK, let 'em drop."


15 posted on 08/11/2014 5:26:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: McGruff
It used to be the US ignored some things and insisted they had to because it might trigger an Russian or Chinese response.

Starting with Rwanda, the left in this country has looked increasingly like the callous eugenics peddlers in league with Iz Lame they really are.

Is it any wonder they want to start another Cold War to give them a marketable excuse whenever they're playing both sides against the middle and don't want to intervene somewhere?

16 posted on 08/11/2014 5:27:56 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: kaehurowing

Yeah, but he meant 24 minutes every 7 days.


17 posted on 08/11/2014 5:29:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Who are the idiots who did not use parachutes? Unbelievable.


18 posted on 08/11/2014 5:29:52 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: Rashputin
Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.

Amazing, if true.

This is almost exactly what happened seventy years ago this month when Roosevelt and Stalin let Warsaw die at the hands of the Nazis.

19 posted on 08/11/2014 5:30:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Rashputin

And Obama says, “Yeah, so? What’s their handicap? Fore!”


20 posted on 08/11/2014 5:31:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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