A sniper with a kill count of 47 has been deployed to protect Brit troops from ISIS
The soldier who cannot be named for security reasons is defending 250 British war heroes at new Iraqi base
A CRACK shot British sniper with 47 confirmed kills has now got his sights trained on Islamic State, The Sun can reveal.
The Colour Sergeant has been deployed to defend a new Iraqi base, home to 250 British soldiers in an area once dubbed the “triangle of death.”
He is one of the deadliest trained killers in the British army – boasting one of the highest kill counts – and has been the target of multiple threats on his family.
He said: “I’ve not seen anyone yet – but I’m waiting. Nobody has dared yet while we’ve been here.”
The sniper – who cannot be named for security reasons – is one of a company of soldiers from 4 Rifles protecting British trainers operating in Al Assad Air Base in Anbar Province, Iraq.
They are building up frontline Iraqi forces’ combat skills before being hurled back into battle against hated IS, which is being rolled back across the region.
Their base – Camp Havoc – sits inside the larger 8km x 7km air base, which is guarded by 1,000 Iraqi forces.
One senior commander described the lay out like an apple, with the British forces in the core, surrounded by a wide “flesh” area dubbed the Amber Zone before the perimeter skin.
The deadly soldier cannot be named for his own safety, as his family have already received death threats
The sniper is protecting those training in the Al Assad Air Base ready to go into battle with ISIS
In the last 12 months there have been rocket attacks – the last in August – plus two attacks by IS squads armed with suicide belts and RPGs, most recently in March.
The infiltrators were wiped out on both occasions by Iraqi forces.
But to tackle the “inherent risk” of operating 60kms from the frontline 4 Rifles have packed some serious hardware.
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And that includes the unnamed sniper who once hit a target from over 1,400 meters.
He became a marksman in 2003 and has honed his elite killing skills during tours in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now the “battle winning” sniper spends 12 hour days monitoring the movements of locals entering the base through the sights of his sniper rifle.
The chances of an attack are slim, but he is taking no chances.
He said: “I was disappointed it is so quiet, in the last three tours duty I’ve been involved in fighting. The good thing about is it at least we will all get to go back.
“I’ve been in it 20 years now and it is something you are trained to do.
“Not in a sadistic way, it is something you enjoy.”
Like the rest of the men, he is itching to get out and take on ISIS, but this mission is different, here forces are training Iraqi forces to liberate their own country.
He added: “I would go to Mosul tomorrow if I could. They’re all itching to go out. They are infantrymen, they just want to go out.”
The sniper revealed his greatest accomplishment was taking out a Taliban sniper firing pot shots at friendly forces in Afghanistan.
He said: “We took a village in Afghan and one of the Afghan national police got shot.
“There were single rounds coming in every 20 minutes. I went to a roof and lay there for a bit. As soon as he popped out I got him.”