Islamic State released a video purportedly showing a Jordanian pilot captured by the group being burned to death, two days after it announced the execution of a Japanese hostage. Pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh was captured by Islamic State in December when his plane crashed in Syria during a bombing run against the group. The video posted by the jihadist group showed him being burned in a cage, according to Maryland-based analysis firm SITE Intel Group.
Islamic State had been in negotiations with Jordan over the fate of Lt al-Kasassbeh and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The group was demanding that Sajida al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber on death row in Jordan, be released in exchange for the lives of the two captives. However, Jordan demanded proof that Lt al-Kasassbeh was alive.
Islamic State published what it said was a video of Mr Goto’s execution last weekend after repeated deadlines for the release of al- Rishawi, sentenced to death for her role in a deadly 2005 attack in Amman, had passed
The pilot appears to have been doused with some type of flammable substance.
Anwar Tarawneh, the wife of Islamic State captive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, holds a picture of him as she joins students during a rally calling for his release, at Jordan University in Amman on Tuesday.
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