The three militants were filming the executioner, who was moments away from burning 12 people alive with a flamethrower, according to multiple reports.
“The SAS team moved into an overwatch position above a village where they were told the execution was going to take place. … The bullet struck the fuel container and it exploded immediately. He was incinerated and several of his henchmen were also killed,” the Daily Star reported.
A US and British special forces team had been targeting “high-value” Isis targets for weeks before a Syrian CIA agent tipped them off about the murderer’s whereabouts.
The terrorist, who delighted in burning prisoners to death, had been on a British and US special forces “kill list” for months.
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