Who is sniping the great leaders of ISIS?

Good day all. This story came out last week. Someone is knocking off ISIS leaders and their henchmen in Libya, and no one knows who it is.

This is causing great consternation amongst the goat raping set in Libya. Here are the amusing details from The Telegraph:

As befits all the best practitioners of his shadowy trade, no-one is quite sure whether he is one man or many, or even simply an urban legend. But after a string of assassinations of its local henchmen, the Islamic State’s new “Caliphate” in the Libyan city of Sirte is abuzz with talk that an anti-Isil sniper is at work.

The killings – reported to be the work of a sniper who honed his skills in Libya’s uprising against Colonel Gaddafi – are said to have sowed panic among Isil’s forces in the city, who have carried a string of arrests and executions in a bid to track down the culprit.

I wonder if this actually is a Libyan? This sort of targeting is something you would see from either a Western military, (including Russia), or perhaps China. While it is very possible it is a local “Good old boy” the fact that he or they has remained unknown makes me wonder.

The Sirte assassin’s most recent casualty, according to social media reports from Sirte, was Abdullah Hamad Al-Ansari, an Isil commander from southern Libyan city of Obari, who was shot dead on January 23 as he left a city centre mosque.

The birthplace of Libya’s late Colonel Gaddafi, Sirte has been under Islamic State control since last summer, Libyan intelligence officials estimating that there may now be up to 2,000 jihadist fighters now based there.

And they are slowly being reduced in number by our friendly neighborhood sniper.

The port city’s new masters have made brutal examples of opponents, via a regime of floggings and beheadings enforced by black-masked religious police.

Ah yes, the typical method of winning the hearts and minds of the people. Rip out their hearts and cut off their heads.

Tales of the mystery marksman are believed to have found a ready audience among the city’s population, few of whom actively support the city’s new hardline rulers. The morale-raising effect of his exploits has echoes of the 2001 film ‘Enemy at the Gates’, in which Jude Law plays the Soviet Union’s top sniper against Hitler’s armies in the Battle of Stalingrad.

The movie sucked. You would be better off reading the book. There is also a book by the actual Russian sniper the movie was badly based on, Vassili Zaitsev. If ISIS has someone like him going after them, well, they should just shoot themselves in the head and save time and anxiety.

The film has since gained large fan club among fighting men in the Arab world, and such is its hero’s warrior allure that one Syrian rebel group fighting President Bashar al-Assad named their top sharpshooter “Sniper Moscow” in his honour.

In similar fashion, locals in Sirte apparently relished the panic caused in Isil’s ranks when Hamad Abdel Hady, a Sudanese official in Isil’s newly-convened Sharia court, was felled by a sniper’s bullet outside a hospital earlier this month.

As I mentioned before, no one knows who is killing the ISIS leadership. This makes me wonder if it’s a Libyan at all. It could be someone from the west who has actual training as a sniper. The first rule of snipers is not to be seen. Since no one has been identified, unlike the guy in Syria, ISIS doesn’t know who to go after.

I have no doubt that someone is gunning for Hamad Abdel Hady, just as the Nazi’s went after Vassili Zaitsev in Stalingrad. You don’t hear much about American snipers or other Western snipers until they have left the area and usually the service. This is to protect them while they are “In country” knocking off enemy targets.

The identity of the mystery marksman – if indeed it is just one – is now the subject of frenzied online discussion. Many believe he may be a militiaman from the neighbouring city of Misrata, whose security forces fought Isil for control of Sirte in the early part of last year but eventually pulled out. Adding to the sense of intrigue is speculation that the sniper might be an American special forces soldier, some of whom are thought to be operating in the region to gather intelligence on the Isil presence.

Obviously, the Obama regime will never admit to putting American troops on the ground, especially if it involves shooting FOO’s. (Friends of Obama) It could be an SAS team from Great Britain, or a Russian Spetznaz team. Lord knows ISIS has really pissed off Putin. It might even be former military who have decided to help out the locals.

However, in a city where little reliable information is currently available, there is a more mundane possibility – namely that reports of the sniper and his exploits may be simply the product of wishful thinking among Sirte’s unhappy residents.

Somehow, I don’t think “Wishful thinking” explains the sudden death of ISIS leaders. It is possible they all died of ill health. High velocity copper jacketed lead hitting you in the head or chest does tend to make people terminally ill. Personally, I’m hoping that a nice lead induced plague decimates the ranks of ISIS.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

[yasr_visitor_votes size=”medium”]