Foreign Affairs committee  Sinjar Mountains has a stretch from east to west that's going to be nearly 14 to 20 miles. The worst of it is for three miles.

Foreign Affairs committee  Indeed. Yes, sir, because if this is not the case nobody will do it. As long as there are people who wanted to claim the goods for themselves, like the political sides, there's no point to let them do it unless somebody else does it.

Foreign Affairs committee  It will not be very secret. There has to be some pinpoints on top of the mountain to drop.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it is indeed.

Foreign Affairs committee  The Iraqi government has got some of those kinds of airplanes. It would be pretty much hidden.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't want to say I disagree, yet I don't want to say I agree totally because, as I said earlier, they have to be there as a Kurd nation. There are two divisions. You have to coordinate them together and have them agree on the same statement to get this mission done.

Foreign Affairs committee  There has always been discrimination there. I'm not going to lie and say all Kurds are alike. There are great people among them. If I said the Kurds in general are the same then it would be a statement that is 100% wrong, but some Kurdish officials are not clearly conveying this

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, sir, there is. Also, there are not only camps in the Kurdistan region, there are a lot of camps in Turkey. There are different spots. There is an American lady who sent me documents, which I gave to the clerk, about the Turkish government that is trying to control the budge

Foreign Affairs committee  Sir, if you go back to the history of genocide that happened to the Yazidis, I want to mention the “blind prince”—that's what he was called—of Rawanduz. He was a Kurd who led this campaign against Yazidis. On August 14, 2007, the same thing happened. History repeated itself. The

Foreign Affairs committee  Indeed. Kurds were well known as fighters. They had the opportunity to stop ISIS and to stop this mess from happening. The Kurds could have gone in the dark of the night, around two or three o'clock in the morning, and left these people helpless without telling them. They could h

Foreign Affairs committee  Sir, they don't need training. They do need a better plan. In the war that's going on here, it's a lack of coordination. There is no coordination between the sides. The Kurdish forces and the Iraqi forces are both led within the same framework. They should protect people no matt

Foreign Affairs committee  First and foremost, I appreciate the great opportunity to speak the truth, especially about what we have witnessed, my colleagues and I, as well as everybody you've had here. I would like to start by going back to what happened a little earlier, back in August of 2007, when a se