SAS to target ISIS with kill missions

The UK’s elite military unit Special Air Service (SAS) will be sent to Syria with a hit-list of 20 top high-value ISIS targets, including a British woman dubbed as “Mrs Terror”, acco-rding to a media report. The kill mission is part of renewed efforts to eliminate ISIS commanders in Syria and will happen regardless of the outcome of Wednesday’s vote in Parliament, the Daily Express reported.

Sally Jones, a mother of two from Kent, who has made herself invaluable to ISIS is believed to be among the targets. Jones’ husband Junaid Hussain was killed in a drone strike in the ISIS “capital” of Raqqa, Syria — the same city where the US also caught up with “Jihadi John” — in August.

Other moves against ISIS will include deploying of Britain’s most sophisticated nuclear submarine into the eastern Mediterranean, armed and ready to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile strike on ISIS’ Raqqa power base, the report said.

Around 40 members of the SAS are already supporting US Special Forces in Syria but that number is to be doubled after defence chiefs ordered the head of Britain’s special forces to focus all efforts against ISIS jihadis in Iraq and Syria. Though the force will take part in a range of missions, its main task will be to target key British extremists.

While the names on the “kill list” remain secret, they are believed to include Jones, from Chatham, Kent, who converted to Islam and uses the name Sakinah Huss-ain. According to inte-lligence sources, her links with the UK ma-ke her a “live threat” to national security.

Meanwhile, the Ger-man Army Chief said on Sunday they are planning to deploy 1,200 troops to help France in the fight against ISIS in Syria, in what would be the military’s biggest dep-loyment abroad.