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In 2014. but late in the year there was a counter attack. it came from the kurds, the middle eastern ethnic minority who were concentrated in the area. their fighting force, the peshmerga backed by international air striking succeeded in opening up a car door to mt. sinjar where thousands of yazidis were trapped. we were there when the mesh mer ga faced a renewed offensive. at the time the village of kocho was controlled by isis and completely unaccessible. but there was plenty of action around the capital of sinjar city. >> we've heard that isis attacked in places we were in just an hour ago....

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...

Kocho was defenseless against the onslaught of sigh sis. they needed a champion and they got one. but would it be enough. >> the massacre at kocho was horrify horrifying. but more horrifying was isis cutting a swath across the middle east. repeated such atrocities wherever it went from iraqi military cadets to cop tick christians. it may have placed the kocho villagers in the path of isis. but there was one who who wasn't going to stand pi and let the world watch. she's a member of the iraqi parliament representing the land of jonah from the bible. and the area being overrun by isis. many of t...

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