The marksman saved the terrified eight-year old and his father by shooting a jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 meters.
That's far. A meter is a yard so 1,000 yards. 10 football fields. Except wait. I's not exactly a yard. That many yards makes a significant difference. Turns out, 1,000 meters is actually 1093 yards. Nearly 100 more yards, the sniper shot nearly eleven football fields worth, and that's American football fields. Not counting end zones. Fields for their football games are a little longer. However visualized it is an outstanding shot.
It must have seemed like an act of God. There was a crowd assembled to witness. The jihadist appeared crazed and with two henchmen on each side. The sniper took out all three with three consecutive shots from a .50 caliber sniper rifle. That's large. Fitted with a silencer.
Father and son stare at the dead men fallen around them and then take off running. Last seen headed for Turkey. Town rejoices. ISIS no longer enters the town. In their world view, by their own prayer, Allah definitely not willing.
Great read. The story bears on an earlier post here at comonocreerendios about the use of the word "hero." The writer is enthralled with the report and judging by your comments back there you will will find the article diminished by that. It is an outstanding feat, and the whole time I'm thinking the sniper himself regarding it pretty much in a day's work if a bit unusual for its particular drama.
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Some good news for a change.
Terror is a weapon of war, and it's very effective. Terror wins wars against rational opponents. In the first Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson threatened to drown his Danish POW's if the Danes didn't stop their bombardment of his forces. It worked. The bombing of Dresden was an act of terror. It didn't work. Hitler had about as much regard for dead Germans as he did for dead Poles.....The public beheading is an act of terror. The public shooting of the public beheader is an even better act of terror........I don't have any insight into the mind of a jihadi but if enough of them die in a public and gruesome way, it's bound to have an effect on recruitment. We will know it's an effective tactic when the left demands its abolishment.
Inshallah, humduallah
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.
~Michael Moore tweet
Given their proclivity for memorializing these beheadings, there is likely video of this.
I would think that as a minimum, ISIS will try to re-kill the same victims with vengeance.
Cheers!
ISIS leadership recently made it a crime make videos of beheadings and upload them. It was a sudden switch and the policy change caused the British beheading guy, John, who is identified now, is on the run from ISIS because he knows now he is dispensable. That's what was in an article yesterday so it must be true.
Know what else is true? Something sillier than that.
I was trapped in a time warp of the advantageous kind for two days. You'd think I'd starve, but I didn't. It's all been quite incredible. Everything reaffirmed my assessment of the date all day yesterday and most of today until I stepped outside through the garage and there were too many cars parked down there for a Monday. They should be gone. That's when I snapped back to real time. The cars were wrong and the atmosphere outside the garage was wrong, the traffic was wrong, the sounds were wrong, pedestrians are all wrong, businesses are wrong, and I'm all, "This isn't Monday, it's Sunday again. I had two Saturdays too. Yesterday's Saturday sounds and atmosphere definitely belonged all to Sunday. Everything did. It's the weirdest thing, and I like when that happens. When I told that to two people they said, "oh, yeah, that."
Right outside the garage in the alley, it's a rather clean alley next to the museum, I saw a guy collapsed in the sun on the hard concrete with shoe off, foot bandaged, backpack opened and apparently dead. A student it seemed.
Upon closer inspection, older than that, a fallen down sot.
Then I was gazing out the window admiring another display in the sky, a stack of clouds such as you see in a movie about cowboys, ordinary cumulous layers of puffs stacked up dramatically but no indication of releasing water. My attention is online. I'm distracted by this. It becomes late, I tire, take off my jeans and I hear what sounds like a train clacking by. But it's rain. And it's hard. Just like that, a hard storm. It drew people to the their balconies to see it, the whole thing that exciting. It could hail.
This is perfect for rinsing the terrace!
Put the jeans back on. A 5 gallon bucket filled with water is kept in a cart right there by the door. Watering in evening helps the suspended planters. The water has a heaping dose of blue fertilizer in it but I use it anyway to pour all over the terrace rinsing off the dust under the cover of a rain storm. This way the COBrew shop that recently opened for business cannot blame me for their grossed out bulged window directly below. Bad building design there, but it's not my fault. People could be sitting on stools inside the bulged out windows down there, sipping their sampling beers, when water from my terrace comes pouring on top of them. A bit of fun, maybe, but it does leave unsightly streaks all over their commercial glass, and that is my fault because of all my planters. It's a regular jungle out there. That takes a lot of watering and does regular dripping.
Rinsing the terrace surreptitiously, under the cover and night and storm, that was fun, worth putting my jeans back on.
Heh... I bet there would be a noticeable time between head-mist and hearing the shot... no?
Yea, that's very interesting, but did you hear the innuendo some guy said the other day about a news woman. I heard a lot of very important people say it was just horrible. We need to address that before we care about stuff on the other side of the world.
Exactly. Someone somewhere insulted Donald Trump(D) and gosh darn it, he must be respected.
Synova, is correct. From experience, shots from a distance away go by you before you hear the round going off. They sound like this: pfft, pfft, pfft.
Not sure about the silencer. From that distance I doubt if the butchers would have any idea where it came from.
A nice story. The important part is that the British have troops on the ground in Syria and Iraq engaged in combat with ISIS. The US, except for the one raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, does not.
Synova said...
Heh... I bet there would be a noticeable time between head-mist and hearing the shot... no?
Absolutely, most likely even from 1000 meters away, you would never hear the shot since it was suppressed and when you lump in screaming crowds, mob noise, etc. you will most likely not hear it even with a .50 cal and depending on the load itself it will run anywhere from 3050 to 3200 feet per second, so that's around 2200 mph and since sound at sea level is around 770 mph, that is 2.85 times the speed of sound. They were screwed before the first head popped.
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