{"id":72137,"date":"2017-05-17T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72137"},"modified":"2017-05-17T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:55:32","slug":"raf-interrupts-an-isis-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72137","title":{"rendered":"RAF interrupts an ISIS execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58797\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/drone-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/drone-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/drone-500x278.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/drone.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A Royal Air Force Reaper drone was flying an armed reconnaissance mission over the Syrian town of Abu Kamal when the drone operators saw some preparations for a public execution according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/16\/raf-reaper-drone-interrupts-islamic-state-public-execution\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em\">UK&#8217;s Telegraph<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGiven the large number of civilians present, the Reaper\u2019s crew could not target directly the Daesh fighters about to carry out the murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reaper pilots, who are believed to have been flying the aircraft by satellite link from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, spotted two Isil fighters posted as sentries on a nearby roof overlooking the makeshift execution ground.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: \u201cA Hellfire missile was fired immediately, and scored a direct hit which not only killed one of the sentries but also brought the execution to an immediate halt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RAF sources said the missile strike caused panic among the crowd and the Isil fighters and the militants fled. But It was not immediately clear if the prisoners due to be executed escaped or were taken away by their would-be executioners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, every little bit counts. One Hellfire missile takes out one guard. A little expensive but the prisoners might argue with that, and the terror that missile caused among the Daesh might have been worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Air Force Reaper drone was flying an armed reconnaissance mission over the Syrian town &hellip; <a title=\"RAF interrupts an ISIS execution\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72137\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RAF interrupts an ISIS execution<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}