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| Obama On Sunni Militants |
President Obama said
today that the airstrikes in opposition to Sunni militants which began the day
before could persist for months, laying the ground job for an extensive airstrike
crusade in opposition to Iraq.
“I don’t believe
we’re going to crack this crisis in weeks,” Obama told reporters prior to departure
for two-week vacation trip at Martha’s vine-yard, Massachusetts. “This is going
to be a time-consuming mission.”
Hours prior to
Obama’s speech, Sunni militants in northern Iraq commanded engineers to go back
to work on the Mosul Dam, the nation’s biggest Dam, suggesting that the
extremists who captured the Dam last week after ferocious battles with Kurdish armed
forces will exercise it, at least at present, to supply water and electricity
to the areas they manage, and not as a weapon.
Its power over the
Dam, however, also gives the group the capability to generate a civilian
catastrophe: A split in the frail Dam could unleash a tidal wave in the city of
Mosul and reason the countless deaths down the Tigris River south to Baghdad
and further, experts have said.
The Islamic state
order came as people in Mosul reported that almost two dozen bodies of Islamic
state fighters, said to be killed in American airstrikes, arrived at the city’s
morgue, while at least 30 wounded fighters were being treated as a hospital.
Today, Obama said
inclusive Iraqi government would give all Iraqi’s a cause to believe that they
were represented and help give Iraqi armed forces a reason to fight back in
opposition to the militants.
The US continued
today its attempt to deal with the crisis in Iraq, as three American martial
cargo planes escorted by navy F-18 fighter jets, dropped more food and water on
Mount Sinjar to aid refugees who fled there under threat from the Sunni
militants.
