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Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac
Daily Express ^ | Aug 9, 2015 | NICK GUTTERIDGE

Posted on 08/09/2015 6:54:46 PM PDT by Bratch

A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.

The brave British marksman saved the terrified eight-year-old and his father after taking out the crazed jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 metres away.

The special forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.

ISIS militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.

They were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: faith; isis; sas; sniper; syria; unitedkingdom
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To: Bratch

Cue the angry Leftists accusing the sniper of islamophobia.


2 posted on 08/09/2015 6:56:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: Bratch

You know that they aren’t American snipers because Obama won’t allow them to operate.


3 posted on 08/09/2015 6:56:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Bratch

Sweet pink mist!! Hallelujah!!


4 posted on 08/09/2015 6:59:22 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.I)
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To: Bratch; carriage_hill

1000 meter head shot—IMRESSIVE!


5 posted on 08/09/2015 6:59:39 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Bratch

6 posted on 08/09/2015 6:59:55 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: right way right

In english words...God be praised.


7 posted on 08/09/2015 7:01:07 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.I)
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To: lightman

That’s what I was thinking. Impressive confidence to go for the head shot at 1000m.


8 posted on 08/09/2015 7:03:11 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Bratch

This could send islamists in Britain on a rampage. The government evidently knows more about how to deal with them outside the country.


9 posted on 08/09/2015 7:08:05 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Bratch

There’s nothing more peaceful than a dead jihadi


10 posted on 08/09/2015 7:11:38 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Bratch

And all we have to do is remember Sir Winston’s words from long ago—”Each one kill one” and the problem goes quickly away.


11 posted on 08/09/2015 7:13:41 PM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Long live the Queen, and her British sharpshooters!


12 posted on 08/09/2015 7:19:20 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: onedoug

“ISIS maniac” my foot! They’re NOT crazy! These ISIS savages know exactly what they are doing.

Thank God for British marksmanship.

Lone wolf jihadis will attempt the same right here in America. Be prepared, fellow “infidels”, to pop armed shahidi flesh!

And is you’re not, then what the hell is the matter with you!?


13 posted on 08/09/2015 7:29:17 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Jeff Chandler
Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac


14 posted on 08/09/2015 7:30:18 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: lee martell

Apparently he used a 50 cal. Did the would-be executioner first with a head shot. Then followed up with his two AK47 carrying escorts before they could get a shot off. 3 rounds fired, no misses.


15 posted on 08/09/2015 7:36:13 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: RightGeek

Google search ‘Tony Montana’. I met him today and got a few pix he brought back from places like Fallujah, Afghanistan and Baghdad. You might need to cross reference ‘Spaghetti Man’.


16 posted on 08/09/2015 7:40:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Cicero

The SAS are the original bad asses from WW 2. I met one who was guarding Bill Harrah many years ago. Mr. Harrah was one of my dad’s clients. You knew right away he was the one guy you didn’t want to mess with.


17 posted on 08/09/2015 7:56:18 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: RightGeek

Well phooie, now I can’t find it on Google! Too graphic I guess, eight rounds from an ak through a BWM windshield to the head and upper torso. BMW did not stop when ordered to do so at a checkpoint street stop in Iraq. He Marine fired twelve rounds from an AK at twenty yards of less. Eight hits.


18 posted on 08/09/2015 8:15:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“gun down” means to murder. When did this sensationalistic term morph into the neutral “shoot”? Do the Brits not know the difference?

This was a righteous shooting.


19 posted on 08/09/2015 8:29:25 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: skeeter

I read a few weeks ago that our own SF forces were told not to intervene during a similar incident where lives could have been saved. It’s time for a change of leadership.


20 posted on 08/09/2015 8:30:58 PM PDT by binreadin
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