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August 12, 2014
Aid Obama Sent To Yazidis Useless After Being Dropped From 15K Feet With No Parachute
Aid Obama Sent To Yazidis Useless After Being Dropped From 15K Feet With No Parachute
Iraq crisis: 'It is death valley. Up to 70 per cent of them are dead'
On board Iraqi army helicopter delivering aid to the trapped Yazidis, Jonathan Krohn sees a hellish sight
Mount Sinjar stinks of death. The few Yazidis who have managed to escape its clutches can tell you why. “Dogs were eating the bodies of the dead,” said Haji Khedev Haydev, 65, who ran through the lines of Islamic State jihadists surrounding it.
On Sunday night, I became the first western journalist to reach the mountains where tens of thousands of Yazidis, a previously obscure Middle Eastern sect, have been taking refuge from the Islamic State forces that seized their largest town, Sinjar.
I was on board an Iraqi Army helicopter, and watched as hundreds of refugees ran towards it to receive one of the few deliveries of aid to make it to the mountain. The helicopter dropped water and food from its open gun bays to them as they waited below. General Ahmed Ithwany, who led the mission, told me: “It is death valley. Up to 70 per cent of them are dead.”
Two American aid flights have also made it to the mountain, where they have dropped off more than 36,000 meals and 7,000 gallons of drinking water to help the refugees, and last night two RAF C-130 transport planes were also on the way.
However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.
Wild Thing's comment............
Obama makes a mess of everything he touches or has anything to do with.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 12, 2014 12:55 AM
Comments
Must have issued PINK $LIP$ to USAF C-130 and C-17
aircrews so THEY could not AIRDROP pallets with C-130 gunship and Cobra / Apache helicopter escorts, eh Sec of NO 'D' Chuck 'I Claudius' Hagel?!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at August 12, 2014 05:40 AM
The Narcissist is GOLFING in Camelotville, shhhhhhh?!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at August 12, 2014 05:43 AM
I don't believe this. The USAF would not make that kind of error.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at August 12, 2014 01:00 PM
I'm with TomR on this. They would not be that stupid to not attach parachutes as they do this in their sleep.
Posted by: BobF at August 12, 2014 03:46 PM
PS: This is Lurch Kerry's and Chucky Hagel's pink slipped warriorless PC military! Get used to this...
ONLY the US NAVY wasn't pink $lipped I hear.
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at August 13, 2014 05:43 AM
