Jordan Strikes Back At ISIS After Pilot's Killingl
Jordan has carried out air strikes on ISIS positions two days after news emerged that the terorist group had burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death.
According to CNN, Jordanian fighter jets returned from their mission and flew over the home of the slain 27-year-old pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, in the village of Ay in Karak governorate.
King Abdullah II, there to offer his condolences to al-Kasasbeh’s family, pointed out the fighter jets overhead as proof that Jordan was responding with force, according to the executed pilot’s father.
The father, Safi al-Kasasbeh, told CNN that the king promised him that Jordan would avenge his son’s death and bombard ISIS’ de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. On Thursday, Safi al-Kasasbeh said he’d been told by the king that 30 Jordanian fighter jets had participated in the strikes.
Video came out Tuesday showing Moath al-Kasasbeh’s execution — something that Jordanian authorities believe actually happened a month earlier.
Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said that Jordan’s response to the killing “will be strong and will be decisive.”
“We will not let this crime of killing our pilots with the horrific way it was done pass without punishment,” al-Momani said. “These people will be punished.”
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