Re: What's going on in the UK and Crown Dependencies
Reply #187 –
[glow=black,2,300]British Army snipers fear kidnap by Jihadis in UK
after blundering MoD blows their cover[/glow]
AN elite band of snipers are being given an SAS crash course on how to escape
jihadi assassins after blundering army bosses revealed their identities online.
The sharpshooters fear their lives and those of their families are in mortal danger after defence chiefs published names and photographs of serving snipers in official reports which were uploaded to the internet.
The blunder has left the men vulnerable to reprisal attacks here in Britain because it means it is now potentially easy for home-grown Islamic extremists to track them down.
At least 50 troops from elite Parachute Regiment and Royal Marine units whose cover was blown are receiving SAS training on how to evade capture if jihadis target them at home or in the streets.
The soldiers, some whom have since left the Army, have been warned to remove their names from the electoral roll and not to carry any military identification as fears over their safety grow.
The courses at the SAS headquarters near Hereford also include briefings on cyber-security, with the snipers being shown how to thwart attempts to hack into their mobile phones, email and Facebook pages.
Ministry of Defence rules state that snipers should never be identified because jihadis consider them to be high-value targets.
Their specialist role shot to prominence last month with the release of Oscar-nominated film American Sniper, which stars Bradley Cooper as US Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who killed 160 insurgents during the Iraq war.
One former sniper whose cover was blown when MoD chiefs published a photograph of his regiment in an evaluation report expressed outrage over the blunder, which has left him fearing for his life.
The un-redacted document even featured revealing details about his military service, describing how he shot dead a Taliban fighter in Helmand province at a range of more than 1,000 yards..........continued
What a bunch of rank amateurs, but being they want Jihadists in their ranks because of Political Correctness, it's a no wonder why they are ranked 28th in the world as an effective fighting force, down from 22nd.