{"id":65645,"date":"2018-01-09T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65645"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:03:40","slug":"the-pitch-meeting-writes-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65645","title":{"rendered":"The Pitch Meeting Writes Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted in advance:\u00a0 It’s the Daily Mail, which gives tabloids in general a bad name.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the story’s too good to doubt:\u00a0 British SAS troopers (the unit Delta is modeled after), ambushed in Afghanistan and running low on ammo, take drastic measures to hold out until help arrived<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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An SAS soldier decapitated an\u00a0ISIS<\/a>\u00a0terrorist using only a spade after their unit was ambushed by militants during a patrol in eastern\u00a0Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The veteran sergeant is said to have cut-off the gunman’s head in one swoop after running out of ammunition during a fierce six-hour gun battle.<\/p>\n

After killing him, the elite soldier then used the jihadist’s own weapon to kill more ISIS henchmen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To make the episode even more movie-perfect, the troopers were rescued by a couple of American attack helicopters, in a scene that\u00a0reads\u00a0<\/em>not a lot different from the climactic scene in\u00a0Lone Suirvivor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Daily Mail,\u00a0<\/em>schmaily schmail.\u00a0 I\u00a0want\u00a0<\/em>to believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noted in advance:\u00a0 It’s the Daily Mail, which gives tabloids in general a bad name. On the other hand, the story’s too good to doubt:\u00a0 British SAS troopers (the unit Delta is modeled after), ambushed in Afghanistan and running low on ammo, take drastic measures to hold out until help arrived: An SAS soldier decapitated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65646,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65645\/revisions\/65646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}