President Barack Obama is considering a range of military options, including airlifts and creating safe passages, for rescuing thousands of Iraqi refugees trapped on a mountain, the White House said. A small team of U.S. troops secretly scouted the site Wednesday.
Following the team’s assessment, it was deemed “far less likely now” that the U.S. would undertake a rescue mission on the mountain because far fewer refugees were found there than previously thought, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
Hagel said the refugees on the mountain were in relatively good condition.
U.S. officials said only several thousand refugees remained on the mountain, far lower than the tens of thousands that had been reported earlier.
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