[ISIS] massacre of Christians!!! How the Massacre of Religious Minorities Is Driving U.S. Action in Iraq The Obama administration and Republican lawmakers alike are calling for U.S. protection of religious groups threatened by Islamic militants. ~By Kaveh Waddell and Marina Koren~ Iraq is home to other small religious minorities, including the Shabak and the Turkmen. ISIS has systematically killed members of both groups as its militants have swept through the country this year.The United States is right [to] intervene in Iraq to provide humanitarian assistance to persecuted religious minorities—including the Yazidis currently surrounded by ISIS forces in northern Iraq and Iraqi Christians, who have been brutalized as ISIS has swept through their villages, Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday. SO~The U.S. military launched a series of airstrikes in northern Iraq on Friday as American forces returned to action in Iraq to fight a brutal Sunni extremist force accused of attempting genocide in its bid to create a hard-line Islamic state. U.S. fighter jets and armed drones attacked targets in Iraq for the first time since the American troop withdrawal in 2011 to try to halt the Sunni extremist advance on the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil. The initial targets of the U.S. strikes—artillery, a group of fighters and a convoy of vehicles—were modest. Further attacks expected in coming days may remain relatively small, allowing the Obama administration to stick to its pledge of limited involvement. However, the U.S. faced the prospect of having to intensify the air offensive if militants, undeterred, continue to press their attack against fleeing and trapped religious minorities and the Kurdish-dominated city of Erbil.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:53:53 +0000
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