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| Iraq |
| Thousands of families flee Mosul as UN warns of 'unprecedented refugee crisis' |
| 2016-07-23 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Over 7,000 refugees from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city have arrived in Erbil in the past week ahead of an anticipated offensive to drive out ISIS holy warriors from the area, which is most likely to trigger a severe humanitarian crisis, according to UN officials in New York. Kurdish Peshmerga officials say nearly half of the refugees are children, many of them are in poor health and undernourished after their long journey. Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said military operations to retake areas held by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group had already forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "The impact of the Mosul military campaign on civilians will be devastating," Grande said in statement from Iraq. "Mass casualties among civilians are likely and families trying to flee are expected to be at extreme." The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... is seeking $284 million ahead of the expected operation, UN front man Farhan Haq said. US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... announced Thursday that $2 billion had been collected during a conference to support Iraq against ISIS, of which portions were planned to help refugees. |
| Posted by:Fred |