{"id":67923,"date":"2016-09-13T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67923"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:00:06","slug":"nice-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67923","title":{"rendered":"Nice Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s been following events in the Middle East during the past few years knows Daesh has some sadistic and evil bastards in its ranks.\u00a0 But some really stand out.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Daesh executioner who liked to execute people with fire.\u00a0 Using a flamethrower.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that particular evil bastard is no longer stealing oxygen.\u00a0 He and three of his \u201cfriends\u201d are now receiving the \u201ctender personal attention\u201d that comes with an afterlife in the company of Shaitan.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that earlier this month, the Daesh executioner was preparing to burn to death a group of twelve prisoners using his favorite flamethrower.\u00a0 But before doing so, the evil bastard first harangued his prospective victims-to-be with a rambling speech.<\/p>\n<p>Bad move.<\/p>\n<p>You see, there was an SAS sniper team in the area \u2013 located approximately 1,500 meters away.\u00a0 When the Daesh tool finished his speech, the sniper took his shot.<\/p>\n<p>The shot nailed the fuel tank on the evil bastard\u2019s back.\u00a0 The resulting explosion and fire took out the executioner \u2013 and his three accomplices.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to think it also gave them a preview of what they&#8217;d experience for the rest of eternity.<\/p>\n<p>US and British Special Forces in the area soon afterwards rescued the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/09\/11\/sniper-takes-out-isis-executioner-from-a-mile-away\/\">NY Post<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3783943\/SAS-sniper-kills-ISIS-executioner-moments-kills-12-hostages.html\">UK Daily Mail<\/a><\/em> each have decent articles on the incident.\u00a0 IMO, they\u2019re truly \u201cfeel good\u201d stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to TAH commenter Greybeard for bringing this incident to my attention via comments elsewhere,)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s been following events in the Middle East during the past few years knows Daesh &hellip; <a title=\"Nice Shot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67923\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice Shot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}