Jordan says IS killed pilot a month ago; vows revenge

February 04, 2015 02:05

Jordan's state television has confirmed the death of Jordanian pilot Mu'ath Safi Yousef Al-Kaseasbeh, but said that he had been killed way back on January 3, before the jihadists offered to spare his life and free a Japanese journalist in return for the release of an Iraqi would-be suicide bomber held in Jordan.

Until last week, Jordanian authorities had been negotiating with IS in the hope of saving him, but the effort collapsed when no proof of life was delivered by the group.

A relative of the pilot said the head of the Jordanian armed forces had told the family that he had been killed, while Jordan's army said it would avenge the death.

"The revenge will be as big as the calamity that has hit Jordan," army spokesman Colonel Mamdouh al Ameri said in a televised statement.

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