SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 16, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Jordan hangs militants, Min 08º Max 25º vows to take battle to IS High Tide 00:01 & 13:52 UAE pulled out of IS fight: NYT Outrage over killing of pilot Low Tide • 07:37 & 19:42 40 PAGES NO: 16424 150 FILS AMMAN: Jordan executed two death-row Iraqi jihadists, from the editor’s desk including a woman, yesterday after vowing to avenge Leaders visit heritage fest the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State group. Would-be suicide bomber Sajida Al- The Satanic State Rishawi and Al-Qaeda member Ziad Al-Karboli were hanged before dawn at a prison south of the capital, the government said. Jordan had promised to begin execut- ing Islamist extremists on death row in response to the By Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan murder of Muath Al-Kassasbeh, who was captured by IS when his plane went down in Syria in December. Jordan’s King Abdullah II cut short a visit to
[email protected] Washington after a gruesome video of the airman’s killing emerged, describing Kassasbeh as a hero and vowing to take the battle to IS. The king was greeted by y deepest heartfelt condolences go to the large crowds at the airport before meeting with his secu- friends and families of Jordanian pilot rity chiefs. “The blood of martyr Muath Al-Kassasbeh will MMuath Al-Kasassbeh, Japanese journalists not be in vain and the response of Jordan and its army Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa and all those who after what happened to our dear son will be severe,” he have lost loved ones to these cowardly criminals.