Haman.-The Jordanian authorities executed two prisoners convicted of terrorism, together with Sayida al Rishawi, whose launch was demanded by the Islamic State (IS) in alternate for the Jordanian pilot Muaz al Kasaesbeh, murdered by the jihadist group.
Al Rishawi, regarding 44 years previous and who spent ten of them in a Jordanian jail, is an Islamic militant sister of Mubarak Atrous al Rishawi, right-hand man of the deceased chief of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
The second executed is Ziad al Karboli, a member of Al Qaeda convicted of the homicide of a Jordanian citizen and for his membership in a terrorist group, based on safety sources cited by the Jordanian newspaper ‘Al Ghadd’, reported Europa Press.
The Authorities of Jordan had introduced that it might give a “stunning, decisive and robust” response to Al Kasaesbe’s execution.
For its half, the Military, by its spokesman, Colonel Mamdouh al Ameri, confirmed in a televised assertion the demise of the pilot, who was captured in December when his airplane crashed in Syria, and promised “revenge as nice because the calamity” identified on Tuesday.
Moreover, Jordanian safety sources introduced yesterday followingnoon that they’d execute Al Rishawi: “The choice was made to hold out the demise penalty in opposition to this Iraqi prisoner and others,” they mentioned.
The Islamic State launched a video exhibiting how Al Kasaesbeh is positioned in a cage and burned alive, even if, as confirmed by the Jordanian Authorities, he was truly executed on January 3.
The Sunni militiamen had demanded that the Jordanian authorities launch Al Rishawi in alternate for the pilot and the Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and had given a number of ultimatums.
The final of them occurred on Thursday by an audio message by which Goto warned that, if the alternate didn’t happen earlier than sundown, he might be executed.
Though the Jordanian Authorities was prepared to launch Al Rishawi, so long as it obtained proof of life from its pilot, and regardless of the efforts of the Japanese Authorities, Goto was lastly executed on Saturday. Since then, there had been no information regarding Al Kasaesbeh.
Following the publication of the video, King Abdullah II of Jordan known as on Jordanians to “stay united” within the face of the “cowardly terror” of the Islamic State, as reported by the Jordanian state information company, Petra.
The monarch interrupted his go to to Washington to return to his nation, however met with President Barack Obama beforehand, though the assembly was not scheduled.
Earlier than assembly with the Jordanian king, Obama ordered his staff to dedicate all assets to finding different IS hostages.
Jordan, an ally of the US, is a part of an alliance in opposition to the group that controls giant elements of Syria and Iraq.
The king defended the marketing campaign from home criticism, saying reasonable Muslims should fight a gaggle whose ideology and brutality insulted Islam.
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2024-06-05 22:00:45
