{"id":192503,"date":"2025-05-17T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=181733"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:06:35","slug":"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-estimated-reading-time yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time: <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">13<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forgive me in advance. I am about to ruin every action sequence in every movie you will ever see again. However, I plan to do so by giving you the critical skills you need to be a successful Hollywood fight coordinator. Perhaps it\u2019s a good trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-3.07.17-PM-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"two guys holding pistols from Lethal Weapon movie\" class=\"wp-image-181752\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Most action movies are fairly formulaic. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean we won&#8217;t keep coming back for more right up until the sun burns out. Mind that trigger finger, Detective Riggs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-the-fight-scene-template\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">The Fight Scene Template<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-fight-scene-mixed-combat\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">Fight Scene Mixed Combat<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-villains-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">The Villains\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-villain-du-jour-abu-sayyaf\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">The Villain Du Jour &#8211; Abu Sayyaf<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-mission-to-get-abu-sayyaf\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">The Mission to get Abu Sayyaf<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-delta-force\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">Delta Force<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-delta-improvise-to-get-abu-sayyaf\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">Delta Improvise to Get Abu Sayyaf<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-gun\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">The Gun<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-ruminations\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-level=\"2\">Ruminations<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-fight-scene-template\">The Fight Scene Template<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following template works for every action movie in the universe. It doesn\u2019t matter if it is&nbsp;<em>Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, John Wick,&nbsp;<\/em>or&nbsp;<em>Extraction.<\/em>&nbsp;They are all the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hero enters well-rested, usually kitted out, and sporting a sinister glint in his eye. He also has a weapon of some sort. This might be anything from a pistol to a <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/u-s-army-evaluating-10-submachine-guns-for-possible-service-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"569\">submachine gun<\/a> to an attack helicopter. From that point, the situation predictably deteriorates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-3.02.32-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"hand to hand to hand fight scene from  a movie\" class=\"wp-image-181750\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-3.03.01-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"hand to hand fight scene in the rain from lethal weapon\" class=\"wp-image-181751\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lethal Weapon is a perennial fave. The mano-a-mano fight scene at the end was epic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, the battered and bleeding star is disarmed. Sometimes he runs out of <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/ammo\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\">ammo<\/a>. Other times he loses his weapon or has it taken from him. If the screenwriter is lazy, the star has a mechanical stoppage. At that point, he must face his mortal enemy alone and unarmed. There results a desperate hand-to-hand exchange where the ultimate outcome teeters. The Good Guy naturally vanquishes the Bad eventually. Fade to black either with or without the emotional reunion with the hot girl eye candy&#8211;monotonously predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fight-scene-mixed-combat\">Fight Scene Mixed Combat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, actors are able to successfully combine mixed armed and unarmed combat. Think Daniel Craig in&nbsp;Casino Royale. In others, that mix ends up cheesy. Think Roger Moore in almost anything. However, reality is never actually like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-3.08.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"middle aged man with beat up face\" class=\"wp-image-181753\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is what a real person looks like after an actual fight. This chunky 35-year-old loser from England got his butt handed to him by a 21-year-old woman he tried to rape. She went to town on his face with her car keys and nearly bit his tongue off before he fled. He got four-and-one-half years in the Big House for his trouble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most humans, I\u2019ve seen a few actual fights. As a physician, I\u2019ve seen the aftermath lots of times. In the real world, real-life close combat is typically ugly, fast, and inelegant. One party gets the better of the other and either beats him into submission or kills him outright. Then the two pugilists face the consequences of their poor life choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One might think that in the rarefied world of modern Special Operations, hand-to-hand combat skills might finally have been rendered obsolete. We human beings have invested a truly breathtaking amount of time and treasure into contriving the most efficient ways of ripping the very life out of our brethren. Tier 1 Special Mission Units like the Army\u2019s Delta Force and the Navy\u2019s DevGru wield the most advanced killing technology mankind can devise. And yet there remains a place for knives, fists, feet, and teeth in the arena of Information Age combat. Now hold that thought\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-villains-nbsp\">The Villains&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>ISIS. Holy snap. In the sordid annals of human psychopathy, you would be hard pressed to find a more vile mob of reprobates. Everything about these guys is simply horrible. They torture, murder, steal, and enslave all in the name of their dark satanic god. Eventually, however, the entire world had just had about enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They go by a variety of monikers. Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Da\u2019ish, and Daesh are among them. The common denominator, however, is simply unbridled hatred of everything everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-12.30.56-PM-1-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"bearded man with beat up face laying on a towel\" class=\"wp-image-181738\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after he got blown up by a pair of American 500-pound bombs. Ouch. That clearly stung.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This transnational militant terrorist organization is a subset of the Salafi jihadist branch of Sunni Islam. Founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ISIS seized a substantial portion of the nation of Iraq in 2014. By the end of 2015, ISIS ruled over more than 10 million people and commanded roughly 30,000 armed fighters. Their annual budget exceeded $1 billion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.33.26-PM-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"abu bakr al-baghdadi sitting with a rifle next to him\" class=\"wp-image-181737\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi eventually blew himself up alongside a couple of innocent little kids. He was total scum, though he obviously packed a nice rifle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Zarqawi met his gory demise in 2006 on the receiving end of an American F-16C fighter plane. Eventually, another loser named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins. In 2019, Delta Force raided his compound. Al-Baghdadi fled into a tunnel, bravely dragging two small children with him. A military working dog named Conan pursued them into the void. Al-Baghdadi then blew himself up along with the kids. I guess he just wasn&#8217;t a dog person. Conan was injured as were two of the Delta shooters. In the end, thankfully, both human and K-9 &#8220;Good Guys&#8221; survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-villain-du-jour-abu-sayyaf\">The Villain Du Jour &#8211; Abu Sayyaf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>American forces discovered intel between those two events that led them to Abu Sayyaf. Abu Sayyaf was a nom de guerre. His real name was Fathi Ben Awn Jildi Murad al-Tunisi. Considering how hard that must be to write, I suppose I would have picked something simpler as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abu Sayyaf was the money man responsible for oil and gas operations in the territories stolen by ISIS. They called him the Emir of Oil and Gas. Think of him like a CFO for a 30,000-employee corporation whose primary commercial product is institutional rape, torture, and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.30.59-PM-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"middle eastern women standing around with candles\" class=\"wp-image-181736\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The furry turd Abu Sayyaf did like the ladies. A fat lot of good that did him once the D-Boys tracked him down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Serving dutifully alongside her Tunisian psycho nutjob husband was his wife Umm Sayyaf. Umm Sayyaf was Iraqi, though this was also not her real name. She was born Nasrin As\u2019ad Ibrahim. Abu and Summ Sayyaf literally translate to \u201cFather and Mother of Sayyaf.\u201d Serving in a lofty leadership position in ISIS is stressful, and Umm Sayyaf understood this. As a result, she turned a blind eye to some of her husband\u2019s more carnal pastimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.41.54-PM-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"kayla mueller holding a mug\" class=\"wp-image-181742\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This sweet young lady was aid worker Kayla Mueller. ISIS kidnapped, tortured, and killed her for the crime of being an American.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abu Sayyaf was indeed a proper piece of work. In addition to managing the finances of the most bloodthirsty terrorist group on the planet, he also had a penchant for sex slaves. He maintained seven that we know of. His &#8220;personal captive&#8221; was kidnapped American human rights worker Kayla Mueller. In the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;century, who has a \u201cpersonal captive\u201d? For these sins, as well as a whole bunch of others, Abu Sayyaf got to meet Delta Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-mission-to-get-abu-sayyaf\">The Mission to get Abu Sayyaf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.39.45-PM-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"abu sayyaf sitting in a room\" class=\"wp-image-181741\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Behold Abu Sayyaf, money man to the stars. Being an ISIS executive doesn&#8217;t offer much of a retirement plan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the money guy, Abu Sayyaf had his fingers in everything. He communicated regularly with the rest of the ISIS leadership and was consulted on military operations. Allied spies rightfully suspected that getting into his head would yield a treasure trove of actionable intel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s tough to hide from Uncle Sam these days. Once we had reliable information on Abu Sayyaf\u2019s whereabouts in Syria, the intelligence community put together a proposal to kill or capture him. The President\u2019s closest advisors were unanimous in their recommendation to proceed, and Obama agreed. An unidentified individual in attendance later said, \u201cIt was risky, but not high risk. This is what these guys do.\u201d Um, wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.49.57-PM.jpg\" alt=\"colonel charging charlie beckwith dressed in uniform\" class=\"wp-image-181745\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Colonel Charging Charlie Beckwith, founder of the US Army&#8217;s Delta Force. This guy was once shot through the belly with a .50-cal round in Vietnam and was triaged as beyond saving. He subsequently recovered and went on to another combat tour in SE Asia, as well as command of the US Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-delta-force\">Delta Force<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The unit tasked to undertake the first direct action mission into Syria to neutralize a high-value ISIS target was the US Army\u2019s Special Forces Operational Detachment\u2014Delta. Delta Force traces its roots back to the 1970\u2019s and is, alongside DevGru, the world\u2019s premier counterterrorist unit. On the night of 15 May 2015, Delta went on the hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.56.56-PM-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"v22 osprey aircraft at night\" class=\"wp-image-181748\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I was a helicopter guy myself, but I have to admit that the V22 Osprey is one spiffy airplane.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abu Sayyaf\u2019s compound was in al-Amir in southeastern Syria. MV22 Ospreys from the US Air Force Special Operations Command inserted the 100-man strike package, along with MH60 Blackhawks from the Army\u2019s Task Force 160<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Special Operations Aviation Regiment. We will probably never know the specific details of the assault. The Delta guys I have known are notoriously tight-lipped regarding the details of their day jobs. However, we know enough to understand the gravity of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of dozen Delta shooters blew a hole in the wall of the compound and encountered armed resistance, which they expeditiously neutralized. Abu Sayyaf and other members of the ISIS leadership purportedly sought refuge behind the women in the facility. Osama bin Laden used the same MO when he met the US Navy SEALs face-to-face in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.58.16-PM-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"military guys with night vision helmets and rifles\" class=\"wp-image-181749\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If you wake up to somebody dressed like this standing over your bed in the middle of the night, you are just screwed. You obviously did something really, really bad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These operations are most commonly undertaken in the dark. American night vision systems define the state of the art, and the D-Boys are trained to live and fight comfortably in that space. I suspect things were pretty chaotic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/genocide-the-etymology-of-mass-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\">Dr. Dabbs \u2013 Genocide: The Etymology of Mass Murder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-delta-improvise-to-get-abu-sayyaf\">Delta Improvise to Get Abu Sayyaf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Things then went truly sideways. The sketchy details that came to light simply said that the Delta operators had to shoot around the female human shields to get to the brave ISIS warriors. At some point, they were too close for firearms and had to take care of business the old-fashioned way. The official government report stated that the Delta boys went hand-to-hand with the Bad Guys before it was over. It\u2019s a crying shame Abu Sayyaf didn\u2019t have a Ring camera. I suspect that would have been YouTube gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.54.24-PM.jpg\" alt=\"military guys standing around outside a brick building with rifles\" class=\"wp-image-181747\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">When capturing Abu Sayyaf didn&#8217;t pan out, the Delta assaulters just put him down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The original mission was to capture and interrogate Abu Sayyaf. That obviously didn\u2019t work, so the D-Boys just blew him away along with some 12 to 18 of his closest mates. They did make off with his wife Umm Sayyaf, an 18-year-old female Yazidi sex slave, and a buttload of electronic intelligence. The information harvested from Aby Sayyaf\u2019s phones and computer drives went on to inform the rest of the operation to deconstruct ISIS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Nazis before them, ISIS was known for keeping meticulous records. In addition to the computer drives laden with data and the sex slaves themselves, the American strike team also discovered a trove of priceless antiquities pilfered from their occupied lands. It seems that in addition to murder and human trafficking, ISIS is not beyond a little good old-fashioned looting when it suits them.&nbsp;Allah must be so proud&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-gun\">The Gun<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.44.19-PM-1024x425.jpg\" alt=\"hk416 rifle\" class=\"wp-image-181743\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heckler-koch.com\/en\/Products\/Military%20and%20Law%20Enforcement\/Assault%20rifles\/HK416\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\">HK416<\/a>. For the past 20 years it has been the assault rifle of choice for the most serious armed professionals in the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I obviously wasn\u2019t there, but Delta Force operators of this era most commonly wielded <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/search?keyword=hk416\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\">HK416<\/a> assault rifles. The HK416 was a collaborative effort between <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-seize-huge-larry-vickers-gun-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\" title=\"The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"570\">Larry Vickers<\/a>, the rest of the Delta gun guys, and Heckler and Koch back in the 1990\u2019s. The original plan was to call the new rifle the HK M4, but Colt threatened a lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HK416 was a gas piston-driven version of the M4 carbine based upon the action of the HK XM8. The XM8 was loosely based upon the entrails of the Armalite AR180. The HK416, though a bit heavy, has been wildly successful. France, Germany, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, and the US Marine Corps have all adopted it as their standard infantry rifle. The Jarheads use a modified form designated the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle today.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ruminations\">Ruminations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays, ISIS is but a shell of its former self. Every time one of those scumbags sticks his head above the sand, some freedom-loving warrior is standing by to blow it off. Allied troops undoubtedly returned the unfortunate Yazidi slave girl to her people and then introduced Abu Sayyaf\u2019s grief-stricken wife, Umm, to her brave new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-09-at-2.36.39-PM-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"umm Sayyaf wife to abu sayyaf\" class=\"wp-image-181739\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">No kidding. This was the only picture I could find of Umm Sayyaf. And we get accused of discriminating against women over here?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some wanted to see Umm Sayyaf tried in American courts. Others felt she might be a good fit at Gitmo. Officials never released the details of her ultimate fate, though it was reported that she was cooperating with American authorities. That simple observation might make it a bit awkward should she ever be released back onto the block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most reliable report I could find stated that she was eventually handed over to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. However, the Kurds have a notoriously efficient justice system. Somebody likely ate her for dinner. 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