Spared beheading by sniper

[Drache]

A British special forces sniper saved the lives of a boy and his father who were about to be beheaded by Islamic State jihadists by firing a shot at the head of the executioner from his position more than half a mile away, a British newspaper reported.

According to the Daily Star, a unit of Britain's special forces Special Air Service carrying out covert patrols on the Syrian-Turkish border was tipped by an Iraqi spy to the execution site where Shiites accused of being "infidels" were going to be beheaded.

An unnamed military source told the newspaper that "there were several decapitated bodies already lying on the ground" in the village where the field trial and punishment were underway.
An SAS ground unit had moved into position just outside the village where the gruesome punishment was being meted out.

"Through binoculars, the soldiers could see that the crowd were terrified and many were in tears," the source said.

Soon, a man and his young son were pulled from the crowd, blindfolded, and placed on their knees.

"A tall bearded man emerged and drew a long knife," the source reportedly said. "He began addressing the crowd and slapping the father and his son around the head and kicking them onto the floor."

The knife-wielding jihadist was flanked by two men toting AK-47s.

That's when the SAS sniper killed the executioner using a .50-caliber rifle shot from 1,000 meters away, more than half a mile.

"The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed," the unnamed source told the Daily Star. "Everyone just stared in confusion. The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots – three kills with three bullets."

After the militants were killed, the boy and his father were untied and ran away toward the Turkish border.

The Star reported that the sniper plan gelled after the unit rejected calling in an aerial drone attack due to the risk that innocent bystanders would be killed.

"It was a good day's work," the source told the Star.


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/10/report-british-sniper-saves-boy-father-from-islamic-state-beheading-with-half-mile-shot/

[BLK 68 R/T]

I enjoy reading stories like this. Some more worthless scumbags got what was coming to them!

[Mike DC]

                 
               

"It was a good day's work," the source told the Star.

[el dub]

TheBlaze is an independent news and entertainment television network and website founded by conservative talk radio personality Glenn Beck.

Do you still believe that story? Three guys take over a village? Something funny going on with the news lately. Sounds like feel good stories. I don't believe anything I read. And half of what I see. Or something like that.   

[Drache]

TheBlaze is an independent news and entertainment television network and website founded by conservative talk radio personality Glenn Beck.

Do you still believe that story? Three guys take over a village? Something funny going on with the news lately. Sounds like feel good stories. I don't believe anything I read. And half of what I see. Or something like that.   

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/597166/SAS-sniper-saves-boy-ISIS-Syria

http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/sas-sniper-saves-father-and-son-from-being-beheaded-by-isis-executioner/

[el dub]

far as I'm concerned, we don't belong over there. let them cut all the heads they want. they are arabs on arabs. Long as they stay out of this country.

[69CoronetRT]

far as I'm concerned, we don't belong over there. let them cut all the heads they want. they are arabs on arabs. Long as they stay out of this country.

Thank you for renewing my belief in naivety. 

[el dub]

No prob. thank your leaders also.

[Drache]

far as I'm concerned, we don't belong over there. let them cut all the heads they want. they are arabs on arabs. Long as they stay out of this country.

Last time your country thought like that WWII was in full bloom and it took Pearl Harbor to make your country realize thinking like that doesn't help.

[RallyeMike]

This story is embellished at the very least if not outright false...... the two henchmen with AKs just stood there (still enough to picked off one by one) ......wondering what was going on after the executioner's head was removed with a .50 cal bullet?

[Mike DC]

   
Yeah that occurred to me too. 


I could see a sniper picking off two of them before they get to cover.  At that distance the sound from a shot is pretty delayed and they would have been taken by surprise.  Maybe not sure what direction it's coming from, etc. 


The story does sound embellished. 

[el dub]

far as I'm concerned, we don't belong over there. let them cut all the heads they want. they are arabs on arabs. Long as they stay out of this country.

Last time your country thought like that WWII was in full bloom and it took Pearl Harbor to make your country realize thinking like that doesn't help.

   Exactly! The enemy attacked us and we responded.  Every since then, we have been doing the attacking, and losing.

   PS. snipers go for center mass with a .50 in most situations.

[daveco]

But if the story was from Al Jazera and was about a US snipers shooting civilians, it would be gospel

[Mike DC]

   

ISIS is evil.  
 
Hitler was evil + megalomania + resources + technology + location + timing.


Evil is common.  It's not enough to pose an international threat by itself.

[el dub]

But if the story was from Al Jazera and was about a US snipers shooting civilians, it would be gospel

I don't believe anything I read daveco. I check it out. I find it hard to believe that there was a british presence there at the same time as an ISIS presence and only 3 people were killed. I don't believe ISIS travels in groups of three.    edited:  I don't know why they would make up a story like that though, so maybe its true.

[redmist]

Cool STORY! and that's about it, ha!

I know that when two guys next to me get gutted via .50 BMG, my first reaction is to stay very very still, and of course standing. I might even drop some dirt from my hands to give the sniper wind direction.   

[Drache]

Cool STORY! and that's about it, ha!

I know that when two guys next to me get gutted via .50 BMG, my first reaction is to stay very very still, and of course standing. I might even drop some dirt from my hands to give the sniper wind direction.   

You'd be surprised what people do. Wouldn't be the first person I've seen freeze and just stand there after the guy beside him dropped dead from a bullet.

[AKcharger]

I like ol' Glen Beck but these reeks of urban legand 

[DeltaV]

Wishful thinking. Probably a case of their Government and Media working together on this story. Psyops to some end.

Q: Why does the sun never set on the British Empire?

A: Because not even God trusts the Brits in the dark!

[DeltaV]

far as I'm concerned, we don't belong over there. let them cut all the heads they want. they are arabs on arabs. Long as they stay out of this country.

Brace yourself. They are already here and more ISIS wolves are at the door; and don't forget the homegrown impressionable malcontents. 

[Mike DC]

   

domestic threat of ISIS  <  domestic threat of bee stings

[bull]

Unless "domestic" is the middle east. So easy to armchair quarterback when it's not your kids getting beheaded and sold into slavery.