Loveday Morris is a Beirut-based correspondent for The Washington Compost. She has previously covered the Middle East for The National, based in Abu Dhabi, and for the Independent, based in London and Beirut. Looks like a kid.
Posted on 08/09/2014 1:08:29 AM PDT by chessplayer
BAGHDAD — Thousands of desperate Iraqi Yazidis who have been trapped by Islamist extremists on a parched mountaintop for almost a week trekked Friday into Syrian territory, seeking refuge in another war-ravaged country.
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“What are the odds The One knew in advance they were going to get off the mountain and only had the airdrop of supplies just before it happened to make himself look good?”
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I suspect the odds are better than even. Barry’s into “token” actions that have little meaning.
Hard to believe the Kurds could just go in without a big fight. I thought ISIS had all these captured heavy armored vehicles that they has surrounded the entire area with .
I have no doubt that U.S. SpecOps are on the ground here now and directing the relief effort.
I hope there are masses of dead ISIS hairballs in their wake.
We need to kill that abu bakr a-hole .
If you look at everything this administration has done since Isis came into Iraq you can come to only one conclusion and that is that the administration is more of a supporter of Isis than anything else.
Even now zero will only go after them on a Nato basis trying to get cover to appease his radical islamo buddies.
From the article, it sounds like the Kurds and Iraqi Yazidis may have been loosely(?) allied anyway, and it also appears a sort of understanding is in effect, in which most able bodied Iraqi Yazidi men at the scene will be armed by the Kurds (likely with US assistance?) while the less capable, and women and children, are provided the escape route.
Perhaps there has been a pretty big fight already, and the Kurds are trying to make up for losses of their fighters? Of course this assumes they’ll gain more manpower than they lose in the process.
Whew…a narrow escape. They knew they had to get off the mountain when those MREs started raining down on them.
“I thought ISIS had all these captured heavy armored vehicles that they has surrounded the entire area with .”.......... OR,
“It has to be true, I read it on the internet”.
Loveday Morris is a Beirut-based correspondent for The Washington Compost. She has previously covered the Middle East for The National, based in Abu Dhabi, and for the Independent, based in London and Beirut. Looks like a kid.
I’m beginning to think Iraq was better off with Saddam in charge.
No doubt in my mind it was.
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