According to Fox News, there’s a fellow in Mosul who is sniping away at ISIS leadership. His presence is encouraging the locals left in the city to resist their occupiers as the Iraqi forces plod toward the city.
The gunman has been targeting extremists in Mosul for several days now as Iraqi-led coalition forces continue their battle to retake the jihadi stronghold.
“The emergence of the ‘Sniper of Mosul,’ as the residents call him, increased the pace of the popular resistance against ISIS,” Al Sumaria News reported.
“The presence of the sniper in four neighborhoods emphasizes that there are many snipers and not only one.”
The UK’s Daily Star tells how the sniper disrupted a public execution;
Sick jihadis had gathered for the execution of the teenage boy who was accused with supporting resistance movements within the city in Iraq.
As the executioner took aim to behead the boy, the sniper opened fire – blasting the monster and killing him.
Terrified terrorists began opening fire randomly after the sniper’s attack as they panicked, according to Al Sumaria News.
The teenager was gunned down before he could escape, but the message to jihadists is the same one received by the civilians;
Death squads waging a guerrilla war on ISIS have brazenly gunned down jihadis leaders in broad daylight shootings.
Women in burqas have also been part of their campaign, gunning down ISIS commanders at checkpoints using pistols hidden beneath their veils.
Snipers can’t win the battle for Mosul, but they’re apparently contributing significantly to the strategy.
THIS is the kind of shit I like to hear! Nicely done!!!
I wonder how they like it? Having to worry about that person in the Burqa, is it a woman? Is it a woman with an AK? Is it a Brit SAS trooper? Sleep well you ISIS bastards!
ISIS better get with the Progressive program and outlaw the burqa!
A dedicated Soldier and his weapon are a powerful tool.
Will you know when the end is NEAR?
NO
Better a $5 bullet than a $80,000 missile
Now that is just crazy talk. How is the next Flag Hag going to get his/her post Military Bum kiss from $5 bullets?
With you on that one. Economical dispatch of evil men is a good thing.
Although I’ll have to add “better a $80,000 missile than one U.S. soldier’s life.” That is good economics as well.
What- No GoPro?
“Be a Hero”
Rounds on target!
Love to hear news like this. Giggling like a little school girl.
“To comfort the afflicted, to afflict the comfortable.”
Read this and smiled. Thought about why I was smiling, then realized my normal Tuesday headache wasn’t there….no Tuesdays with Claymore.
Claymore had logistic problems this morning.
Hope he’s ok.
Make those ISIS Satanists worry a bit.
They set it up to publicly terrorize folks and catch a round from nowhere. I think that counts as “counter to the message.”
My concern is a couple of months from now some jackass will pop up on a stolen valor site (complete with leather vest adorned with patches) professing to be “The Sniper of Mosul”
Or SIX jackasses will pop up, each claiming they were the Sniper of Mosul.
Each one wanting a herd of goats for a reward?
Service goats.
Wow, it’s pretty scary how Mosul is taking out Isis but the US couldn’t do it first. It’s really disturbing how little we actually know. Great post John.
I wonder how an Iraqi learned to be such a good sniper, and why such a good sniper would wait until now to start shooting bad guys.
And not be caught or seen. Maybe one of the ISIS bastards isn’t an ISIS bastard. Or maybe…
Would this count as “speaking truth to power”? (/sarc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
I’m for any multiplication factor that results in the greater number of dead bad guys.
i have a close friend and a retired fallow soldier who’s trade craft was cleaning up shit,
this was is still is Quietest person I’ve ever meet. This place was his AO
then one day they had a blue on green and all has changed
What he did on that day should have earned him a MOH but instead they gave him silver
He doesn’t care either way but one day they will honor The Ashley
It appears that the closer Iraqi and other forces get to Mosul, the stronger the resistance from Daesh/ISIS.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKCN12Q1FP
A few pictures are included, and if you’re curious, there’s a link to another section where you can read up on NATO’s proposal to bump up forces on Russia’s borders.
No way am I going to believe these are Iraqis doing any of this. I remember those fucks deserting and welcoming isis in the streets.
From a two-hour old AP report:
“Daesh waited until night to attack the troops,” Iraqi Army Sgt. Maj. Hakim Saranbii told The Associated Press. He added that the attacks “inflicted heavy losses,” without giving specific casualty figures or further details. Iraqi Defense Ministry officials in Baghdad did not immediately comment.”
They waited until night? The rats! Don’t they know they are to reveal themselves in broad daylight to the Heroic Forces that don’t go for that night-fight business? Cripes. Yeah, this is going well.