We’re not the sort of organization that makes a practice of celebrating death.
But in the War on Terror, make no mistake: it’s kill or be killed as radical Islamic terrorists will not stop until all ‘infidels’ are dead or converted.
So it comes as encouraging news when a leader among ISIS fighters is no longer among us to spread his filth and violence.
Thanks to an anonymous Canadian special forces sniper (whose name is being withheld for security reasons), the record for longest kill shot was smashed recently when the sniper interrupted an ISIS attack on pro-US Iraqi forces with the hit from 2.14 miles away.
The shot was verified by video and took an amazing 10 seconds to reach its target.
Wow, impressive, sir, impressive.
Here’s more from Breitbart…
A Canadian soldier has broken the world record for the longest sniper kill in history, taking out an Islamic State militant from over two miles away.
The sniper, who serves as a gun specialist in the elite Joint Task Force 2 operation in Iraq, achieved the feat by shooting an assailant from a high rise building over a distance of 3,450 meters, approximately 2.14 miles. It took around 10 seconds to reach its target and was later verified by both video footage.
“The shot in question actually disrupted an Islamic State attack on Iraqi security forces,” an anonymous military source told the Canadian Globe and Mail. “Instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, it is a very precise application of force and because it was so far way, the bad guys didn’t have a clue what was happening.”
British sniper Craig Harrison previously held the world record, acquired when, in 2009, he killed two Taliban insurgents with a 338 Lapua Magnum rifle from a range of 2,475 meters. Before him, the record was also held by a Canadian, Corporal Rob Furlong, who in 2002 successfully neutralized a target from 2,430 meters using a McMillan Tac-50.
“Hard data on this. It isn’t an opinion. It isn’t an approximation. There is a second location with eyes on with all the right equipment to capture exactly what the shot was,” another military source said, who also spoke under anonymity due to the classified nature of Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) operations.
JTF2 remains an elite special operations force of the Canadian Armed Forces, who primarily focus on counterterrorism, sniper operations, and personnel recovery. Due to the classified nature of their work, the Canadian government rarely comments on their operations.
