Desperate Christians in Iraq beg West to send in troops after beheadings, crucifixions
Source: mirror.co.uk
Locals have said that the US air strikes are ’too little too late’ amid claims of beheadings, crucifixions and mass abductions
Desperate Iraqi Christians yesterday called for urgent military action from Britain and America, begging for our troops to be sent in to save them from rampaging Islamic extremists.
US President Barack Obama has already launched airstrikes in a bid to halt a feared genocide by jihadis from the hate-filled Islamic State – formerly known as Isis – but locals said it was “too little too late”.
Terrified members of the minority Assyrian community in the north have been targeted, alongside the Yazidi sect, with thousands forced to flee for their lives amid claims of beheadings and crucifixions.
Assyrian civil engineer Esho Esho, 39, used to work in America but returned to his home country in 2012.
Speaking from the Iraqi Kurdistan capital city of Erbil, he called for the return of Western ground troops to bolster the poorly organised Iraqi army that has been badly overrun by IS fighters in recent months.
He said: “The Americans, British, other European countries need to come back to Iraq and finish what they started.
“You don’t leave a job before you finish and they have caused this mess.
“The Iraqi army may be well equipped but they don’t know how to use the equipment and they are not organised.
“They cannot cope. We have seen this town expand by more than 100,000 people in a day. There are tents everywhere, people sleeping in the streets. My family back in the US ring me every day begging me to come home but I cannot leave. I would feel too guilty.
“International forces are needed now on the ground to stop the IS fighters. Anyone in their path, any minority, is at risk.”
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