Posted on 08/12/2014 9:43:12 AM PDT by Dave346
On board Iraqi army helicopter delivering aid to the trapped Yazidis, Jonathan Krohn sees a hellish sight
Mount Sinjar stinks of death. The few Yazidis who have managed to escape its clutches can tell you why. “Dogs were eating the bodies of the dead,” said Haji Khedev Haydev, 65, who ran through the lines of Islamic State jihadists surrounding it.
On Sunday night, I became the first western journalist to reach the mountains where tens of thousands of Yazidis, a previously obscure Middle Eastern sect, have been taking refuge from the Islamic State forces that seized their largest town, Sinjar.
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.
Handfuls of refugees have managed to escape on the helicopters but many are being left behind because the craft are unable to land on the rocky mountainside. There, they face thirst and starvation, as well as the crippling heat of midsummer.
Hundreds, if not more, have already died, including scores of children.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
15,000 feet is the max range for most MANPADS.
A C-130’s only defense against MANPADS is flares. The C-130 is about as maneuverable as brick with wings. The crew was likely ordered to stay above the MANPADS engagement envelope.
God’s justice may be slow, but it is certain. I’m sure President Obama, the arrogant narcissist in chief, is not overly concerned about ultimate justice but I’m thinking (and praying) he should be.
Those poor people on the mountain, but look at the choice they had. Apparently Christians and others not Islamic enough who have fled to Mosul are being butchered. This link is horribly graphic, but apparently they are beheading children, and cutting the throats of women and draining their blood. One comment says only the Catholic papers are willing to show these pictures. We can help. I rember reading that young bull elephants are known to herd together and go on rampages. It appears all the most vicious bloodthirsty young Islamic men in the world are rushing to join ISIS. These horrible pictures are posted by them and they show great glee while committing their atrocities.
http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481
This is almost exactly what neutron warheads were invented for.
Is terrible Gleeaikin. What can we do with obama and his crowd in charge. Keep praying someone get me out of this place and then they send more isis.
May we?
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