Posted on 08/10/2015 1:47:53 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
A British sniper from the elite SAS saved an 8-year-old boy and his father from an Islamic State executioner by shooting the executioner in the head last month.
The SAS sniper team was reportedly tipped off to the execution in the Syrian desert by an Iraqi spy. When they arrived, they found that several Shia Muslims had already been beheaded by their Shiite Muslim captors. The IS (commonly referred to as ISIS) executioner, flanked on both sides by armed companions, was preparing to kill a young boy and his father next when the SAS team deployed its .50-caliber silenced sniper rifle.
“The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed,” an unnamed source told the Express. “Everyone just stared in confusion.”
“The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots–three kills with three bullets.”
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
.50 BMG rounds have a velocity of approx. 2900 fps. That’s nearly mach3. I doubt he heard the round before it removed his head.
One's a deeper shade of brown than the other.
Boosh!
” I doubt he heard the round before it removed his head.”
OK. The executed ... not the executioner.
“What’s the difference between a Shia and a Shiite?”
One is a movie actor and the other is something you step in if you’re not looking.
“What’s the difference between a Shia and a Shiite?”
Nothing. Seriously. Just different terms for the same sack of ... well, you know what I mean.
LOL!!!
Thanks for posting this! It is one of the best news stories I have seen in a long time! I am not a violent person and have never fired a gun in my life, but I am the proud grandmother (AKA “Gigi”)of two year old Jack whose former Special Forces Marine sniper Daddy gave him a BB gun for his first birthday. He now has a toy machine gun to go with it.
Bonus for the bacon grease coating on the projectile.
I know but the article says they (ISIS) are shiites.
“It’s usually a muzzle brake to reduce the recoil. Not much point in trying to silence a round delivered at a supersonic speed.”
Quick detach over muzzle brake. Also reduces muzzle flash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEgBvKOgVuM
Don’t be so sure. isis probably has a bounty on them now.
If we called them Daesh we could kill two birds with one stone: clarity would be served and they hate the name because it’s an insulting word in their native tongue.
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