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Britain Airdrops Humanitarian Aid for Besieged Iraqis
[AnNahar] Britannia has begun airdropping food and water to thousands of civilians stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq after fleeing jihadist myrmidons, officials said Sunday.The first delivery of aid to the minority Yazidis, which also includes tents, water filters, and solar-powered lights and phone chargers, took place overnight, a defence ministry front man said. Two Royal Air Force cargo planes were deployed to the Sinjar region on Saturday in the wake of an attack by murderous Moslem Islamic State turbans on the region a week ago. The United States has already started dropping food and water on Mount Sinjar and is conducting air strikes against the myrmidons, while Britannia has said it currently has no plans for any military intervention. La Belle France was expected to begin delivering first aid equipment to the Sinjar region later in the day, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius left for Iraq early Sunday. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britannia planned to set in motion "a continuing drumbeat of airdrop operations working in coordination with the U.S. and potentially with others as well." "But more widely we are looking at how to support this group of people and get them off that mountain, how we are going to facilitate their exit from what is a completely unacceptable situation," Hammond told news hounds on Saturday. Britannia's Department for International Development on Friday released 8 million ($13 million, 10 million euros) in emergency humanitarian aid for Iraq. This includes 2 million of emergency supplies for 75,000 people, including the Yazidis. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-08-11 |
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