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1. Same video, different source, more details:

Sat Aug 9, 2014, 10:39 PM

Aug 2014

Rudaw Exclusive: Helicopter Carrying Aid Reaches Mount Shingal

Published on Aug 8, 2014

Kurdish soldiers are loading much-needed food and water onto this helicopter destined for mount Shingal where thousands of Yezidi civilians are stranded.

They are not speaking English but it turns out all but the pilots and maybe the gunners are Kurdish soldiers. I don't know who the man talking is but I just noticed that it says... if I read the translation right... There are a 100,000 on the mountain.

What a miserable place to be trapped. These people, like a group of Christians, were told to convert or die and were only allowed to leave with the clothes. Obama mentioned the Christians and the sect here by name and that ISIS were going after religious minorities.

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BREAKING VIDEO for the BOG from an entry posted to the White House Blog: [View all] freshwest Aug 2014 OP

Same video, different source, more details: freshwest Aug 2014 #1

DW video post Saddam story, despite the date. Kurdistan is nothing like what I expected. freshwest Aug 2014 #2

More about Kurdistan and the women fighters there: freshwest Aug 2014 #4

I don't think they'll let themselves be captured alive. IrishAyes Aug 2014 #11

Oh, freshwest. It makes me cry too. Those poor sweet souls. sheshe2 Aug 2014 #3

Thank you, fresh.. I will see this when I get back.. Cha Aug 2014 #5

Thanks.. get a hanky for that first one... and maybe more. freshwest Aug 2014 #6

Off to the greatest with you love. littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #7

Kicking! sheshe2 Aug 2014 #8

So heartbreaking for them, fresh.. :( Cha Aug 2014 #9

UPDATE: freshwest Aug 2014 #10