Kurd fighters bring aid to Mt. Sinjar amid new offensive

Kurdish peshmerga forces have brought aid to civilians and fighters taking refuge from jihadist militants on Mt. Sinjar in Iraq's northwest. The peshmerga broke a months-old siege by the militants earlier this week.

Deutsche Welle, 20 Dec 2014

Iraqi Kurd forces on Saturday delivered food and other aid to civilians and fighters who have been trapped on Mt. Sinjar since September, many of them after fleeing from jihadist militants belonging to the "Islamic State" (IS) group.

Iraq's Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said in a statement that 32 trucks carrying food and water along with other aid supplies traveled to Mt. Sinjar from the northern city of Erbil through the "corridor established by the courageous peshmerga forces."

The aid delivery got through three days after the Kurdish peshmerga forces launched a major operation against the IS group in the region, backed by heavy airstrikes carried out by a US-led coalition. A number of villages were recaptured from the IS militants, forcing the jihadists to flee west to Syria or east to Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.

The KRSC said the peshmerga launched a new offensive toward Mt. Sinjar on Saturday, capturing the nearby area of Mushrefa. It said the Kurdish forces were now closing in on the town of Sinjar to the south of the mountain and Tal Afar to its east.

The report has not been independently verified.

Dramatic siege

In August, tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority were trapped on Mt. Sinjar for days in searing temperatures after IS overran the Iraqi towns of Sinjar and Zumar. Many were eventually evacuated through a corridor through Syria back into Iraq that had been opened by a Kurdish coalition of forces.

That coalition is now trying to reopen the same corridor, which would make it possible to evacuate more of the civilians on Sinjar to Iraqi Kurdistan via Syria.

The IS group captured almost a third of Iraq and Syria earlier this year in a campaign characterized by extreme violence and brutality.

The siege on Mt. Sinjar was a major factor in prompting US President Barack Obama to approve airstrikes by US-led forces in both countries.

tj/mg (AFP, AP)

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"Revelations of Darkness" - Oct 1, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ .. Do Not Despair

There's too much information to give you in one channelling, in one sitting, so I refer to past messages for you to better understand and reference the information in order to get the bigger picture. So I wish to remind you of something I also told you in a recent channelling called Do Not Despair. You're winning! It's because you're winning that the dark consciousness on this planet is feeling it, and the humanity that represents darkness is pulling out everything it has to survive.

It Has Always Been There

Let's look at it, because it's all over the news. Are you shocked at the sudden existence of the organization that will remain unnamed [for this channelling]? Where did it come from? How could it be so organized? How could it be so well funded? This organization could have its own country soon! They might as well name it, “The Old Energy Dark Country”, for that's what it will represent.

The barbaric past of humanity comes forward to show its face. It has always been there, hiding under the rocks and between the cracks of civilized humanity. It couldn't show itself until now, but now it has to. It's ugly and it's not for the faint at heart, is it, dear ones? Seeing evil personified in Human action is abhorrent. It is so ugly and so dark that you cannot look upon it with a gentle heart. God is not a part of it and this is obvious.

You're winning! Light is winning! The uprising of dark consciousness would not have shown itself with this strength, or this quickly, if this were not so. This is exactly what I told you to look for, and it is proof that those representing this dark consciousness are in trouble. Dear ones, dark consciousness has always had a tried-and-true system. It lurks in the shadows and influences all the power places of the planet - government, commerce, finance. Suddenly, it can't hide there as well anymore and it's out in the open.

Where is the funding coming from? It is coming from a storehouse that has always been there, dear ones. It uses income that has been generated from low consciousness acts, collected for a very long time. Funding didn't just appear. It has been stored, waiting to be used in order to spread fear and darkness to save what they believe is their way.

Who Will Win?

Dear ones, they haven't got a chance! But it looks like they do, doesn't it? Everything that they are doing is calculated to scare you into submission. Are they winning? Now, that's a question I want you to take from here and examine every day.

Fear is black. If you're in fear, there is no light. You can be the grandest Lightworker, or even be the channeller, but if you're in fear, it doesn't matter how many years you've done light work, or how much light you've accumulated personally. It all goes away with fear, and then they've won the battle for your mind. Do you understand this?

The Strength of the Old Soul - YOU

Old souls, Lightworkers reading this, the experiences you have had over lifetimes and lifetimes are incredible! The old soul knows fear. I don't want to be too graphic, but I want you to understand! What was it like when you put your head in the guillotine because you talked about God in a way that was inappropriate? What was it like to be bound hand and foot when they lit the match at your feet? Old soul, that's fear! You carry those experiences in your Akash.

I want to tell you they haven't got a chance to scare you! You absolutely know what fear is, and they haven't got a chance as long as you cling to that part of you that is the strength of God. You've been through it all. That means you've got the weapons of truth, wisdom and light. Don't forget it. Don't forget who you are!

Do you see how fast they assembled? It seemed like only yesterday that there was no organization at all. Where did they come from? Have you noticed a certain hesitancy to fight them? Why is it that the citizens of the lands that they are invading are hesitant to fight them? Instead, these leaders are calling on others to help. Why is it that the others are also hesitant? I want to show you that there are some anomalies of logic that are not making sense, because this is a battle you have never seen before on this planet. We've expected it, but you haven't. It's about consciousness, not land or resources.

How to Win?

We gave you the secret before of how to defeat them without taking even one life: Simply take away their funding. They cannot exist without their funding. The funding has to be organized, stored, and distributed. It has to be generated in such a way that it must also go through institutions. Did you hear that? All you have to do is stop the system. Winning won't be done with bombing. It's going to be done with intelligence, clever thinking and financial forensics. It's time to get smart on some of these things and not to be afraid to look at this puzzle differently than you have before. Do not apply the energy they are using in order to fight them, because you won't win. Figure it out. It's the last bastion of organized darkness and evil thinking on this planet coming together to try to survive the assault of your light. Don't be afraid to look at the funding trail, no matter where it takes you.

Fear is Their Weapon

I want you to know something as you look at your news. It may appear that you are unable to stop them. In many places, they will gain strength as they create fear. The fear is easily created in those who are not old souls and who don't know fear like you do and who don't have the armor of your spiritual experiences. This puts you in the front line, dear one. Did you realize that? But you don't have to go fight them on their terms. All you have to do is broadcast light. High consciousness will beat fear any day.. .”