Posted on 11/23/2014 5:53:43 AM PST by the scotsman
'SAS troops with sniper rifles and heavy machine guns have killed hundreds of Islamic State extremists in a series of deadly quad-bike ambushes inside Iraq, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Defence sources indicated last night that soldiers from the elite fighting unit have eliminated ‘up to eight terrorists per day’ in the daring raids, carried out during the past four weeks.
Until now, it had been acknowledged only that the SAS was operating in a reconnaissance role in Iraq and was not involved in combat. But The Mail on Sunday has learned that small groups of soldiers are being dropped into IS territory in RAF Chinook helicopters – to take on the enemy.
Targets are identified by drones operated either from an SAS base or by the soldiers themselves on the ground, who use smaller devices.
The troops are also equipped with quad bikes – four-wheeled all-terrain vehicles that can have machine guns bolted on to a frame. They then seek out IS units and attack the terrorists using the element of surprise and under the cover of darkness.
The missions have taken place on a near daily basis in the past four weeks and the SAS soldiers have expended so much ammunition that regimental quartermasters have been forced to order a full replenishment of stocks of machine-gun rounds and sniper bullets.'
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You forgot one important element, the POS that occupies the Oval Office. Unless the military or CIA is doing this behind b. Hussien’s back, there are no US special forces doing what the SAS is doing.
I know JTF-2 from Canada and the Aussies are in country. I do not believe their role is limited to training the Kurds.
The IS monkeys have disbursed into small groups traveling often on motorcycles in order to not be a juicy bombing target. This exposes them to the risk of dying in small groups.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3219705/posts?page=21#21
Looks like the Brits have been tasked with “cleaning out the barn and taking out the trash.” As always, they’ve done an excellent job.
It would have been a better start had they been in Britain.
That is how you fight these animals. HIT THEM WHERE THEY LEAST SUSPECT. In my 40 years in the field, this is how we defeated the terrorists that were plaguing a country. We went in, killed as many as we could, and got out. It took less than an hour to accomplish the job at hand. If we had several units like these in Syria, or Iraq. withing six months, these ISIS people will be just a bad memory. And remember, NO PRISONERS.
0bama doesn't know about anything going on in the government until he reads about it in the paper.
The Desert Rats kill rats in the desert
Git some....
Don’t mess with the SAS!
Remember Thai ISIS is the enemy of the Muslim Brother hood the POS Pres__ent’s flavor of Islam.
Ah, the power of boots on the ground.
If the Brits are doing this much, then the death toll caused by US special forces has to be much higher.
A lot of stuff is going on behind the scenes that is just not being reported.
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