White House weighing air support for Iraq–while children and the old die on mountain-top
This image made from video taken on Sunday shows Iraqis people from the Yazidi community arriving in Irbil in northern Iraq after Islamic militants attacked
White House weighing air support for Iraq
David Jackson and Jim Michaels, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering options to assist trapped minorities in Iraq, including possible airstrikes, a government official said.
Obama has already authorized airdrops of food, water and medicine, the official said.
The administration has been mulling options for weeks, but the issue has come to a head with a mounting humanitarian catastrophe in northern Iraq where the Yazidis, a small religious minority, are trapped on a mountain top surrounded by Islamic militants.
The source asked not to be named since he was not authorized to speak about the issue. No final decision about airstrikes has been made.
The administration is also worried that the militants, which have had one success after another, may now pose a threat to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, according to a senior U.S. official. Erbil is home to a U.S. consulate and a joint U.S.-Iraqi security.
Read the rest of the article on USA Today: HERE
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Fleeing ISIS Ethnic Cleansing, Thousands of Iraqi Yazidis Starving on Mountain
Having rid Mosul of its Christian population, the terrorist group ISIS – now the Islamic State – has begun targeting a small population of Iraqis known as Yazidis, who have fled the now-ISIS-controlled town of Sinjar and are living on a mountaintop devoid of food and water.
The Yazidis are one of Iraq’s smallest religious minorities (they are ethnically Kurdish) and follow a unique religion that is neither Christian nor Muslim but most directly tied to Zoroastrianism. They are monotheistic but believe that God is not the administrator ruling the Earth, rather an archangel referred to as a “Peacock Angel” – which some Muslims believe is an analog to Satan, hence the derision towards Yazidis as “devil worshipers.”
To read the rest of the article and to watch Iraqi Member of Parliament Vian Dakhil’s impassioned plea to save her people: HERE
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