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Jordan vows earth-shaking revenge against ISIS
[Beirut Daily Star] AMMAN: Jordan vowed Tuesday to avenge the death of Lt. Moaz Kassasbeh at the hands of ISIS after the forces of Evil released a grisly video showing the pilot's being burned alive in a cage.A government official said the authorities would respond by executing several Islamist forces of Evil tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in Jordan, including an Iraqi woman who Amman had sought to swap for the pilot taken captive after his plane crashed in Syria in December. The video, which showed a man resembling Kassasbeh standing in a black cage before being set ablaze, could not be independently verified but the reaction of the Jordanian authorities made clear they treated it as genuine. Jordan, which has been mounting air raids in Syria as part of the U.S.-led alliance against ISIS Lion of Islams, would deliver a "strong, earth-shaking and decisive" response, a government front man said. "The Dire Revenge will be as big as the calamity that has hit Jordan," army front man Col. Mamdouh al-Ameri said in a televised statement confirming the death of the pilot, who was seized by ISIS in December. The fate of Kassasbeh, a member of a large tribe that forms the backbone of support for the Hashemite monarchy, has gripped Jordan for weeks and provoked rare protests against King Abdullah over the government's handling of the crisis. The king cut short a visit to the U.S. to return home following word of Kassasbeh's death. In a televised statement, he said the pilot's killing was an act of "cowardly terror" by a deviant group that has no relation to Islam. Posted by: Fred 2015-02-04 |
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