SAS ‘straight concerned’ in killing 4,000 terrorists in ambushes and sniper assaults
Britain’s most trusted army regiment have been in major conflict zones around the world, helping to bring terrorists down; all doing this with no public recognition
Britain’s elite special forces have been directly involved in the killing of more than 4,000 blood thirsty terrorists in Syria and Iraq over the past 10-years.
Troops from the SAS, the SBS, and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have launched ambushes, sniping attacks, called in air strikes and directed heavily armed drones onto hundreds of terrorist strongholds.
All of the terrorists were killed by British troops as part of Operation Shader, the military codename for missions against Isis terrorists in Syria and Iraq which was launched in 2014. Defence sources have told the Daily Star Sunday that almost all of the carefully planned attacks took place with almost no collateral damage and minimal civilian casualties.
The sources also said that the role played by UK special forces working alongside the RAF in dismantling terrorist groups had helped to save the lives of thousands of civilians in Syria, Europe and the UK. In one spectacular mission SAS operatives took out an entire group of terrorists, including a bomb maker when a sniper shot dead a suicide bomber.
A source said: “The Special Forces sniper shot the suicide bomb in the chest which caused his explosive vest to detonate. It killed him, another terrorist and a bomb maker. More importantly prevented a suicide attack on an Iraqi military base which could have killed dozens of soldiers.”
In another classic special forces operation in 2020, SAS troops managed to locate a terrorist network in a series of caves in northern Iraq. The caves were heavily defended and could not be cleared of terrorists with a significant loss of British lives.
Instead, the SAS commander waited until the suspected terrorist commander appeared at the entrance of the cave. This was also a suspected communications hub and arms dump.
The British troops directed an RAF Reaper drone into the area. When the terrorist commander appeared the Reaper fired a hellfire missile into the mouth of the cave.
The Ministry of Defence subsequently reported that the blast penetrated deep inside the “cave network, indicating that the weapon’s effect had reached deep inside the caves”. In September, members of the special forces coordinated two attacks against ISIS terrorists in Syria. In the first attack, a wanted terrorist was killed in a drone strike just as he was about to get into a car in Aleppo.
In a second mission three weeks later on September 28th, another terrorist was taken out after being positively identified by UK special forces. The covert team called in a drone which followed the terrorists while he was on foot and riding a motor cycle.
He was eventually blown to pieces in a hellfire missile strike. A source said: “There are people alive in the UK today because of covert missions carried out by the special forces in Iraq and Syria.
“Most of these operations get very little publicity but they are incredibly dangerous and require a great deal of courage to execute.” The SAS continues to remain a secretive group, whose actions and members are private but continue to guarantee the safety of Brits both at home and abroad.
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