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Jordan to intensify coalition role after pilot killing

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04-02-2015 | 12:23

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Jordan will intensify its efforts with an international coalition fighting Islamic State after the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

"We are talking about a collaborative effort between coalition members to intensify efforts to stop extremism and terrorism to undermine, degrade and eventually finish Daesh," Mohammad al-Momani said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

King Abdullah headed a meeting with senior security officials on Wednesday, he added.

Jordan has mounted air raids in Syria as part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State insurgents and said on Tuesday that it would deliver a "strong, earth-shaking and decisive" response to the killing.

"All the state's agencies including its military and security ones and the rest of the state's agencies are developing different options to deal with this new challenge and to emphasise that the response of Jordan will be heard by the whole world and as we said yesterday the response of Jordan will be tough, earth-shaking," Momani said.

Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists, one a woman, on Wednesday in response to the release of footage purported to show the pilot, Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, being bunrt alive in a cage.

Both had already been sentenced to death.

The king cut short a visit to the United States to return home following word of the death of Kasaesbeh, who was captured in December when his F-16 warplane crashed over northeastern Syria.

REUTERS

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