Revenge: Jordan executes two militants following burning alive of their pilot by ISIS

Jordan officials also confirmed that a former aide to a late al-Qaeda leader was also hanged in the eye-for-an-eye retaliation.

16:30 04 February 2015

Just hours after pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh was burned alive by ISIS extremists, Jordan executed two militants, one of them a female prisoner sought by the terror group.

The news came after video footage showing the pilot being set on fire as he stood in a cage where Jordan promised a swift and “earth-shaking” response. It added that it will execute several militants it was holding.

Army spokesman Colonel Mamdouh al Ameri said in a televised statement confirming the death of the pilot, who had been seized in December: “The revenge will be as big as the calamity that has hit Jordan.”

Jordan is part of the US-led coalition fighting Isis in Syria. There are fears that the country’s recent move may give the militant group the reason to target Jordan.

On Wednesday morning, Jordanian state television confirmed that it executed Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi woman militant who was sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Amman that killed 60 people. It also executed the former aide to a late al-Qaeda leader, Ziad Karbouli.