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The jihadi killer, one of the most feared terrorists in Syria, was turned into a human fireball by one shot from the marksman.

The sniper blasted him from a range of 1,500m hitting the flame-thrower’s fuel tank.

The high-velocity tracer round made it explode in an instant.

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The blast also killed three other thugs there to film the “execution”.

The attack took place early last month in a small village close to the town of Raqqa in northern Syria.

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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The jihadi butcher and his gang had been travelling around Isis-held areas slaughtering civilians they claimed were enemy agents.

Victims were tied to stakes or imprisoned in cages before being torched by the death squad.

The executioner became so feared prisoners would often beg to be shot rather than burned alive.

But the psycho’s luck ran out when he was targeted by the SAS sniper armed with a Barrett .50 calibre rifle.

A source told us: “The SAS team moved into an overwatch position above a village where they were told the execution was going to take place.

“Up to 12 civilians were going to be murdered – eight men and four women. They were suspected of being spies.

“None of them were agents. The Isis killers knew that but just wanted to instil fear into the local population.

“The executioner gave some sort of rambling speech over a loud hailer then when he finished the SAS sniper opened fire.

“The bullet struck the fuel container and it exploded immediately. He was incinerated and several of his henchmen were also killed.”

The civilians targeted for execution escaped and were later rescued by British and US special forces.

Isis started killing suspected spies with a flamethrower after the technique was used in North Korea.

Our source said: “The flame-thrower is a terror weapon – it is designed to instil fear and inflicts terrible injuries.”