RPMDAD
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If the second link is accurate.
Earlier today
The White House stopped short Thursday of committing America's military to stopping a potential "genocide" in Iraq, declining to say whether doing so is in "America's core interests."
Officials say the administration nevertheless is weighing options ranging from military strikes to the delivery of humanitarian aid for ethnic minorities driven from their homes by Islamist militants. Senior U.S. officials told Fox News the administration is strongly considering plans to conduct a humanitarian aid mission that would provide food and water to the 40,000 or so religious minorities stranded on a mountaintop in the country's north after Islamist militants forced them to flee.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ping-potential-genocide-in-iraq-but-weighing/
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American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq
DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said.
Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington.
Kurdish officials said the bombings targeted fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. Residents who had fled those areas by car were heard honking their horns in approval. But Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Twitter that the reports of the bombings were false.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/w...mb-isis-targets-in-iraq.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0
Earlier today
The White House stopped short Thursday of committing America's military to stopping a potential "genocide" in Iraq, declining to say whether doing so is in "America's core interests."
Officials say the administration nevertheless is weighing options ranging from military strikes to the delivery of humanitarian aid for ethnic minorities driven from their homes by Islamist militants. Senior U.S. officials told Fox News the administration is strongly considering plans to conduct a humanitarian aid mission that would provide food and water to the 40,000 or so religious minorities stranded on a mountaintop in the country's north after Islamist militants forced them to flee.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ping-potential-genocide-in-iraq-but-weighing/
To
American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq
DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said.
Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington.
Kurdish officials said the bombings targeted fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. Residents who had fled those areas by car were heard honking their horns in approval. But Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Twitter that the reports of the bombings were false.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/w...mb-isis-targets-in-iraq.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0
