Watch: human tide of Yazidis scramble onto helicopter in rush to escape death

[Wilikon]

The crowd on board burst into tears as the chopper took off. Young and old, women and men, civilians and servicemen — all cried with the intensity of the moment.

Gunners had to open fire at the ground in order to make it away from ISIS.

“They flew in shooting; they flew out shooting,” Watson reported.

“There was not a dry eye on the aircraft.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/world/meast/iraq-rescue-mission/index.html

[bryant.coleman]

According to the latest reports, only a few thousand Yazidis remain in the Jabal Sinjar region. The remaining have been rescued by the Syrian Kurds. And those remaining in the mountains have received supplies of food and water.

[koshgel]

What an desperate situation to be involved in for these Yazidis.

Even in the limited video of the helicopter rescue you can see the intensity of what these people are dealing with.

Hopefully these ISIS scum will be killed off for good soon

[Chef Ramsay]

With all the arms smuggling behind the scenes and the colossal failures in American middle east foreign policy has created and radicalized quite a formidable force and set them loose going after defenseless people creating a never before felt humanitarian feeling in many Americans that perhaps are willing to til the soil over there for another tens years and beyond. If times were good, this would be a no brainer and already in full gear.

[bryant.coleman]

With all the arms smuggling behind the scenes and the colossal failures in American middle east foreign policy has created and radicalized quite a formidable force and set them loose going after defenseless people creating a never before felt humanitarian feeling in many Americans that perhaps are willing to til the soil over there for another tens years and beyond. If times were good, this would be a no brainer and already in full gear.

After toppling Saddam Hussain, the Americans should have made Iraq a federal republic, with more power to the provinces. That is the only way to unite a country which is deeply divided along the ethnic and sectarian lines. But what they did was to create another dictator in the form of Nouri Al Maliki. IMO, Iraq should be divided in to 3 federal subjects (one each for the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds), with the minorities such as Yazidis, Assyrians and Shabaks having their own autonomous regions.

[Wilikon]

ISIS Chopping Off Arms And Legs Of Yazidi Men For Being “Devil Worshippers”…

Displaced Yazidi people fleeing into across a bridge into Syria from northern Iraq told FRANCE 24 reporters on the ground of the horrors committed by ISIS militants terrorising their region.

“They took the women and the young girls. The men were killed with butcher’s knives,” one young woman told FRANCE 24.

“They cut off their arms and their legs. They killed my family, I have no one now,” a young man added.

Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking religious minority, are fleeing the violence of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS or ISIL), which wants to force them to convert to Islam.

Yazidis have suffered religious persecution for generations because of their beliefs, which include some elements similar to Christianity, Judaism and other ancient religions. ISIS (which now calls itself the Islamic State) militants consider them “devil worshippers”, because of a similarity in the name of a spirit they worship and the Arabic word for “devil”.

http://www.france24.com/en/20140814-yazidis-fleeing-isis-syria-northern-iraq/


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[Possum577]

With all the arms smuggling behind the scenes and the colossal failures in American middle east foreign policy has created and radicalized quite a formidable force and set them loose going after defenseless people creating a never before felt humanitarian feeling in many Americans that perhaps are willing to til the soil over there for another tens years and beyond. If times were good, this would be a no brainer and already in full gear.

After toppling Saddam Hussain, the Americans should have made Iraq a federal republic, with more power to the provinces. That is the only way to unite a country which is deeply divided along the ethnic and sectarian lines. But what they did was to create another dictator in the form of Nouri Al Maliki. IMO, Iraq should be divided in to 3 federal subjects (one each for the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds), with the minorities such as Yazidis, Assyrians and Shabaks having their own autonomous regions.

At what point should the people of Iraq taken the lead in creating the solution you believe to be most beneficial to them? The American's liberated the country from a Dictator and the remaining leaders did not have the courage to lead - or at least that's how it appears.

The Americans are damned if they do and damned if they don't...