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| US team in & out of Mt. Sinjar to assess situation |
| 2014-08-14 |
| (Reuters) - A team including personnel from the U.S. military and the U.S. Agency for International Development landed on Iraq's Mount Sinjar early on Wednesday to assess how to evacuate civilians taking refugee from the IS, a U.S. official said. "They were there last night and they did an assessment," said the official, saying this occurred early on Wednesday in Iraq. A second U.S. official said fewer than 20 personnel were involved in the assessment of the situation and all had returned safely to the Kurdistan capital of Arbil by military air. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #4 "We broke the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) siege of Mount Sinjar," Obama said. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-14 20:10 |
| #3 So fewer than 40 boots doesn't count as "boots on the ground", Mr. President? What about the steep, slippery slope? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-08-14 07:48 |
| #2 Obama of Sinjar in 7, 6, 5, 4, 3.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-14 01:38 |
| #1 DoD says Mt. Sinjar siege is over: WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials said late Wednesday that United States airstrikes and Kurdish fighters had broken the Islamic militants’ siege of Mount Sinjar, allowing thousands of the Yazidis trapped there to escape. An initial report from about a dozen Marines and Special Operations forces who arrived on Tuesday and spent 24 hours on the northern Iraqi mountain said that “the situation is much more manageable,” a senior Defense official said in an interview. Administration officials said that several thousand Yazidis remained on the mountain, not the tens of thousands who originally were there. Some of the people on Mount Sinjar indicated to American forces that they considered the mountain to be a place of refuge and a home and did not want to leave. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-14 00:50 |