“This could be a massacre if no help arrives!”

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A Kurdish fighter who spoke to Fox News by phone has issued a plea that if no help comes to Kobani to stop ISIS, then it will be a massacre that makes what happened at Mount Sinjar look like nothing:

FOX NEWS – Even as U.S. airstrikes continued to pound Islamic State positions in Syria, Kurdish fighters told FoxNews.com the terror organization was advancing on the Syrian town of Kobani, where as many as 400,000 residents and refugees are holed up.

“Tell the world what is happening” said Rooz Bahjat, a senior Kurdish military officer said Wednesday by phone. “This could be a massacre if no help arrives.”

Desperate field commanders in Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, fear the worst unless help arrives soon, and note 70,000 refugees have already fled across the border into Turkey. Hundred of thousands more, including women, remain, ready to fight.

“What happened on Mount Sinjar will seem like nothing compared to this if ISIS gets through,” Bahjat said, referring to the Iraqi mountain village where thousands of religious minorities were under siege from Islamic State fighters until U.S. airstrikes broke their hold. “They have now surrounded the city and are fighting on all sides.”

Kobani is ringed by Islamic State tanks, artillery and mortars, and they are now just miles from the city, Bahjat said.

According to Time Magazine today, the ‘coalition’ has already taken out some ISIS targets near Kobani:

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that planes scored hits against ISIS militants near Kobani, which is also known as Ayn al-Arab. The Observatory’s Rami Abdulrahman said that local activists reported that the planes had approached from the Turkish side of the border. Turkish officials have dismissed that claim, according to the BBC, and denied that Turkish aircraft or the U.S. airbase at Incirlik were used.


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