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

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135. This and the complete lack of any location or time frame for this alleged event.

There was a long time ago in Afghanistan a regular army British sniper who did pull off a record shot over a great distance. It was credited to a specific marksman and unit, and the location was quite specifically described.

This fake edition and the other "stories" echo that one real event in so many details. If there was indeed a specific ISIS soldier killed in that way they would have had his name in the story and the SAS or the Army would be taking credit publicly for dangerous work well done.

That the BBC and the other mainstream British press do not cover it is very telling indeed. They have a very tight arrangement with the Army and other services about what is said and when. This "event" didn't happen. It was either planted as "feel good" propaganda, or was made up by one of the "papers" that published it.

There are quite a few wannabe soldiers out there who get pumped up by this kind of mythology especially when the subject is the SAS and other "elite" units. Those units have a specific history that has little to do with headlines and less to do with jingoistic nationalism. They don't go to war for our entertainment even if this kind of war/gun porn is how they are celebrated in the penny dreadfuls and the yellow press.