Was President Obama's Remark That 'The Siege Of Mount Sinjar Was Over' Premature?

'Crisis far from over': Some of refugees are still stranded on Mount Sinjar (above) despite assertions by the UK and U.S. that they were only a few thousand remain

'The Siege Of Mount Sinjar Is NOT Over': Iraqi MP And UN Chiefs Attack Obama's Claims That Islamic State Stand-Off Was 'Broken' - And Say 70,000 Refugees Are Still Trapped -- Daily Mail

* Yazidi MP Vian Dakhil claims U.S. troops had only cleared north of mountain
* Estimates that tens of thousands of refugees are still stranded to the south
* She dismissed claims by U.S. and UK, adding: 'The situation is very terrible'
* UN relief workers say humanitarian crisis is 'far from over' and still 'grave'

An Iraqi MP and United Nations relief workers today dismissed claims by the U.S. and the UK that the humanitarian crisis on Mount Sinjar was all but over.

Yazidi MP Vian Dakhil claims some 70-80,000 refugees are still stranded on the mountain despite assertions from American and British leaders that they number only in their low thousands.

President Barack Obama yesterday said the ten-day siege by the Islamic State had been 'broken' by missile strikes and humanitarian aid drops, allowing tens of thousands of Yazidis to escape.

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Update #1: Despite U.S. Claims, Yazidis Say Crisis Is Not Over -- New York Times
Update #2: Inside the Islamic State's Siege of Mount Sinjar -- Newsweek

My Comment: So who is right .... President Obama and the Pentagon who saying that 'we broke the ISIL seige of Mt. Sinjar' in Iraq .... or the people who are actually there. My gut is telling me that the people who are on the ground and who are facing these hardships directly are probably far more aware of what is happening than someone who is a few thousand miles away.