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SAS in high-tech hunt for Jihadi John: 'Significant force' of elite UK troops on the ground ....
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 08/24/2014 2:31:40 PM PDT by TigerClaws

British Special Forces hunting the killer of James Foley are using an array of sophisticated equipment to track him down – and possibly free other hostages being held.

The Mail on Sunday has been given a detailed account of how elite troops from the SAS and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) are conducting high-tech operations inside Syria and Iraq, which could lead to the capture of the extremists within days.

It emerged as reports suggested that British intelligence services had identified the true identity of the terrorist who beheaded Mr Foley – as seen in a video which shocked the world - known as 'Jihadi John'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732785/SAS-high-tech-hunt-killers-James-Foley-Significant-force-UK-elite-troops-ground-Iraq.html#ixzz3BLbsAofd Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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To: Nuc 1.1

It is like saying, no muzzie agrees with ISIS.


21 posted on 08/24/2014 3:09:53 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Farmer Dean
Americans still have balls,what we lack now is leadership.

Well said.

22 posted on 08/24/2014 3:16:03 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: blueplum
= Guardian & Telegraph reported it 8 days ago.

"Report: U.S. airstrikes carried out as part of Iraqi effort to retake Mosul Dam

‎8‎/‎16‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎02‎:‎03‎ ‎AM · 17 of 48 bunkerhill7 to icwhatudo

British sources say SAS on the ground and 8 Tornados in action over Iraq as we speaketh cf guardian & telegraph"

23 posted on 08/24/2014 3:23:06 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: chiefqc
...with mac, enemy islamist daddy.
24 posted on 08/24/2014 3:30:07 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: TigerClaws

Don’t run guy - you’ll only die tired ....


25 posted on 08/24/2014 3:36:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: bunkerhill7

What I didn’t like in this particular Mail article was the phrase, “which could lead to the capture of the extremists within days”. The ‘within days’ seems too much of a hint that, hey, they’re closing in on you right now!, for my tastes.


26 posted on 08/24/2014 3:36:24 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: TigerClaws

Dire measures have to be taken against these useless slugs. For one thing, issue a warning that for every innocent hostage they kill, we should kill ten terrorists in custody. And no mercy shown towards these oxygen thieves. Total extermination.


27 posted on 08/24/2014 4:15:16 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: junta

From the comments I’ve read on the board underneath the article, it sounds like many Brits are fed up with their milquetoast liberal gov. which lets the scum in and treats them like wayward children when they commit crimes.


28 posted on 08/24/2014 4:17:37 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: SkyDancer

If you meekly give yourself up, you may end up at Gitmo — better food than you have now, soccer, clean underwear and new korans.


29 posted on 08/24/2014 4:24:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

If the SAS goes after him there is no “meekly give up” - they’ll take him out. And he will know he’s been taken out.


30 posted on 08/24/2014 4:29:15 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: TigerClaws

Tell him he’s up for a life time achievement award at the VMA’s


31 posted on 08/24/2014 4:43:14 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: TigerClaws

How about a couple titan 2 missiles and not risk a single Western life.


32 posted on 08/24/2014 5:08:50 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: TigerClaws

Remember when people knew how to keep their mouths shut? We need to bring back the “lose lips sink ships” concept. There is no good reason at all for this story to be in the newspaper.


33 posted on 08/24/2014 5:27:56 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Farmer Dean
Americans still have balls,what we lack now is leadership.

And the whole church said AMEN!

34 posted on 08/24/2014 5:29:59 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: blueplum
This is the second time in a week that the Mail has outed military operations in progress.

Yeah. What the hell?

35 posted on 08/24/2014 5:32:19 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: driftless2
For one thing, issue a warning that for every innocent hostage they kill, we should kill ten terrorists in custody.

Not only will that not work, it plays right into their hands instantly making any of their fellow terrorists instant martyrs.

Now, KILL THEIR FAMILIES, lock stock and barrel every single member and watch how fast the terrorism stops.

36 posted on 08/24/2014 5:34:58 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: TigerClaws
I'll bet ol’ Jihadi John is not sleeping as soundly as he was before the beheading. I'll bet nobody in ISIS is sleeping as well. Travel & meetings must be quite uncomfortable, what with a possible Hellfire, JDAM, or SAS team on the way at any time.
37 posted on 08/24/2014 5:49:57 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: SkyDancer

Them guys never went to knife and fork school.


38 posted on 08/24/2014 6:32:55 PM PDT by btcusn
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To: btcusn

I’ve read all of Andy McNab’s (B.Steven Mitchell DCM MM) books.


39 posted on 08/24/2014 6:39:34 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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