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WH Says Yazidi Crisis Over, No Need for Military Intervention

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Wed Aug 13, 2014 at 09:56:34 PM EST
Tags: ISIS, Iraq, Yazidis (all tags)
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Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, says the new military advisers who went to Sinjar have found the crisis is over. Military assistance (as opposed to humanitarian assistance) is not needed.

The Obama administration has ruled out for now a risky US military mission to rescue thousands of Iraqis stranded on a northern Iraqi mountain, declaring a siege by Islamist extremists to be over. ...Kirby said in a statement that the team on Mount Sinjar found a situation less dire than the administration and international organizations initially thought when the US sent its warplanes back to Iraq for the first time since 2011.

“There are far fewer Yazidis on Mount Sinjar than previously feared,” Kirby said, crediting “the success of the humanitarian air drops, air strikes on [Isis] targets, the efforts of the Peshmerga [Kurdish guerillas] and the ability of thousands of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountain each night over the last several days”.
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    Why is it always (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 13, 2014 at 10:10:14 PM EST
    Foreign press