The Islamic State (ISIS) group released a video Tuesday, February 3, purportedly showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage, in the jihadists’ most brutal execution yet of a foreign hostage. The highly choreographed 22-minute video released online showed images of a man purported to be First Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh, captured in December, engulfed in flames. King Abdullah II vowed an “earth-shattering response.” Al-Kassasbeh, who was only 26, was held hostage by ISIS after his plane crashed over northern Syria. ISIS had tied the pilot’s fate to that of two Japanese hostages, both of whom were eventually murdered last week.
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