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IS claims to have executed Jordanian pilot
Amman, Feb 3
The Islamic State (IS) Tuesday
claimed in an online video to have burnt alive Jordanian pilot Moaz
al-Kasasbeh, who was captured by the Sunni radical group after his plane
crashed in Syria in December last year, media reports said.
The
video, which could not immediately be verified, shows a man standing in a
cage and engulfed in flames, BBC reported, adding that Jordanian state
TV said he was killed a month ago.
The video was distributed via a Twitter account, the report said.
The
images published on IS's official al Furqan media site apparently
showed the Jordanian pilot being burned alive while confined in a cage,
said a CNN report.
Jordanian officials had earlier said they were
ready for possibly swapping Sajida al-Rishawi, a female suicide bomber
imprisoned in Jordan for her role in a 2005 bombing, for Kasasbeh. That
demand was made via Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who was also taken
captive by IS and beheaded in a similar gruesome manner.
An IS video released last week said Goto had "only 24 hours left to live" and Kasasbeh "even less".