According to media reports, coalition special forces launched a daring pre-dawn raid on Friday in an attempt to extricate Muath al-Kasaesbeh, an aviator with the Royal Jordanian Air Force, who is being held by ISIS gunmen in the northern Syrian town of Raqqa.
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Jordan ready to exchange would-be-suicide bomber for captured pilot ...
ReplyDeleteA Jordanian spokesperson has said it is ready to hand over a would-be-suicide bomber if pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh is released by the Islamic State group.
Mr Kasaesbeh was captured after his jet crashed in northeastern Syria in December during a bombing mission against the militants.
IS had warned that he had less than 24 hours to live if Sajida al-Rishawi was not released from death row.
The Iraqi woman is being held by Jordan for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing that killed 60 people in the capital Amman.
Several hundred people, including relatives of the Jordanian pilot, gathered in front of the office of Jordan's prime minister last night.
They urged the authorities to meet the demands of IS and release al-Rishawi to save the young pilot's life.....................http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0128/676079-japan/
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