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11th September 2016
11:02pm BST
The source told the newspaper:
“The SAS team moved into an overwatch position above a village where they were told the execution was going to take place.
“Up to 12 civilians were going to be murdered – eight men and four women. They were suspected of being spies.
“The executioner gave some sort of rambling speech over a loud hailer then when he finished the SAS sniper opened fire."
It's not the first time the expert marksmen of the SAS have saved lives with some incredible shooting.
A British special forces sniper took out two ISIS car bombers with a single shot as they drove towards a target in Libya, according to the Mail.
The sharpshooter hit the driver of the vehicle in the head from a range of 1,000m and the bullet lodged in the neck of his accomplice who was sitting next to him in the passenger side of the vehicle.
The sniper potentially saved hundreds of lives as the jihadis were transporting the massive car bomb to a busy market in Tripoli where they planned to detonate it.
Earlier this year an SAS shooter notched a triple kill with a single round through a 10-inch wall from around 1km away. Militants were holed up in a heavily fortified tower in the Iraqi town of Ramadi. But the SAS sniper managed to take out three ISIS members with a single armour-piercing round from his .50 Barrett. Military chiefs said the incredible shot avoided the need for airstrikes and potentially saved 20 lives in the process. This article was originally posted on JOE.co.ukExplore more on these topics:
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