{"id":40928,"date":"2015-02-04T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40928"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:57:44","slug":"jordan-executes-2-al-qaida-prisoners-after-is-kills-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/04\/jordan-executes-2-al-qaida-prisoners-after-is-kills-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan executes 2 al-Qaida prisoners after IS kills pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn Wednesday, a government spokesman said, just hours after Islamic State militants released a video purportedly showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.<\/p>\n

Jordan confirmed the pilot’s death and vowed a swift and lethal response.<\/p>\n

Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani identified the two prisoners executed by hanging early Wednesday as Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, Jordan had offered to trade al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber, for the pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, but froze any swap after saying it had received no proof that the pilot was still alive.<\/p>\n

Al-Rishawi had been sentenced to death after her 2005 role in a triple hotel bombing in Amman that killed 60 people. Al-Karbouly was sent to death row in 2008 for plotting terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq.<\/p>\n

The killing of the pilot outraged Jordanians and drew worldwide condemnation, including from President Barack Obama and the U.N. Security Council.<\/p>\n

Al-Kaseasbeh had fallen into the hands of the militants in December when his F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group’s self-styled caliphate. He is the only coalition pilot to be captured to date.<\/p>\n

The killing of the 26-year-old pilot appeared aimed at pressuring the government of Jordan – a close U.S. ally – to leave the coalition that has carried out months of airstrikes targeting Islamic State positions in Syria and Iraq. But the extremists’ brutality against a fellow Muslim could backfire and galvanize other Sunni Muslims in the region against them.<\/p>\n

King Abdullah II has portrayed the campaign against the extremists as a battle over values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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