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Team. >> we will conduct a systemic campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we're hitting isil targets as the forces go on offense. >> the plan was to degrade and destroy isis. but the effort would be limited to air strikes because the president foreswore the deployment of american ground troops. >> meanwhile the yazidi people had been forced to flee to sinjar mountain, about ten miles away from the overrun village of kocho. many of their villages had been b...

Believer you should -- this is thinking about that. >> she does more than represent her people in baghdad she traveled by helicopter to sinjar mountain, ten miles north of the village of kojo last august 12th on a rescue mission after the yezidis had fled there to escape isis. >> i want to help those people on the mountain. get them some food and water. >> a chaotic scene developed when dozens of refugees swarming the chopper. >> only we can help 25 people. >> the helicopter was too heavy. and it crashed. >> you were hurt. >> i broke my leg.

Believer you should -- this is thinking about that. >> she does more than represent her people in baghdad she traveled by helicopter to sinjar mountain, ten miles north of the village of kojo last august 12th on a rescue mission after the yezidis had fled there to escape isis. >> i want to help those people on the mountain. get them some food and water. >> a chaotic scene developed when dozens of refugees swarming the chopper. >> only we can help 25 people. >> the helicopter was too heavy. and it crashed. >> you were hurt. >> i broke my leg.

Know. it's heavy fighting. >> the battle for sinjar is about more than destroying the yezidi yezidi's home. it's a dealing a powerful blow by isis to continue the campaign. according to the general -- >> translator: they are in great financial through the oil they transit. this is one of the main roads which connects mosul to syria which is why they don't want to lose sinjar. >> indeed the peshmerga as fighting a war not just for their own but to help rid the world of isis. they believe they'll need more support. >> translator: more support. it doesn't make sense. >> when i was there the peshm...

Most of the women taken as slaves are still missing. some have been able to get messages back to their people. their plea? don't worry about our safety. bomb our isis captors. one of those messages -- >> translator: please help us. we are raped many many times in a day. we need to die. >> and the unthinkable a plea from an iraqi mother that her kidnapped daughter be put out of their misery. >> i have five girls and they tell me please, can you make someone kill us? anything? the obama administration concedes it may take years to destroy isil, but draft keel who we met earlier isn't willing to ...