British SAS sniper kills ISIS flamethrower executioner with a crack shot to save 12 hostages

[muriel_volestrangler]

122. It comes from the Daily Star, a British tabloid with a reputation roughly of the National Enquirer

but more naked or semi-naked women in it. As I noted, they published an almost identical story in February.

I'd certainly object to it being in LBN; it's just a story, from one anonymous source, and told to the least reliable British publication that might be said to employ 'journalists'. It has all the elements of war porn - the single shot, the incredible skill of the British sniper killing multiple evil guys, the innocent victims saved at the last moment - though that 'saving' is remarkably hazy - as #114 says, it just consists of "the civilians targeted for execution escaped and were later rescued by British and US special forces." It seems a remarkable coincidence that all the bad guys got killed in the blast, and none of the civilians, and that this somehow enabled a rescue which would have been quite complicated, you'd think, and would involve some more heroics.

It reads like the storyline for a post-WW2 boys' comic. It's obviously very popular on DU, and no doubt with Daily Star readers too. Which is why they wrote another.