British aid plane takes off for Iraq
BBC News
6 August 2014
Officials have warned the Yazidis face starvation and dehydration if they remain stranded
A cargo plane has left RAF Brize Norton carrying British humanitarian aid to Iraq, the BBC understands.
The aid drops are part of an £8m package of aid announced by the UK government.
Members of the Yazidi community trapped on a mountainside in northern Iraq will be among those to receive assistance.
It comes as the government's emergency Cobra committee prepares to meet to discuss the response to the conflict in Iraq.
The BBC understands the meeting will be chaired by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. It is understood talks will focus on the humanitarian aid effort announced by the government on Friday.
There is also likely to be a broader discussion about the situation in Iraq.
Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed US air strikes against militants from the Islamic State - a group formerly known as Isis - which controls parts of Iraq and Syria.
He has ruled out any UK military action.
BBC News - British aid plane takes off for Iraq
correction:
If CAMERON is such a devout Christian he has a revolting and disgusting way of showing it as he stands by while Christians now are being slaughtered and brutally raped by ISIS taking over Iraq and other Islamo-Nazis around the globe.
The enforcement of Islamic laws allows and compels the rape of Christians by these animals – yes, animals – and what does CAMERON do about it?
^ that's better
The article was written by a Yank, not by a Brit.
Funny how right wingers on this forum blame Obama for not withdrawing troops and then blame him for the increasing violence done by ISIS and growing instability in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Funny how the left-wingers on this forum show faux outrage and anger when their precious Muslims are being killed in Gaza as a result of a country defending itself from Muslim terrorism, yet they seem to show little in the way of outrage and anger when Christian and Yazidis are being slaughtered by Muslims in northern Iraq because they have the audacity of not being Muslims.
When it comes to these innocent Christians and Yazidi being butchered in Iraq, where is all your anger and outrage that you showed when people in Gaza started being killed?