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Muath al-Kasasbeh
Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIL in 2015
Muath al-Kasasbeh
Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh (Arabic: معاذ صافي يوسف الكساسبة, romanized: Muʿadh Ṣāfī Yūsuf al-Kasāsibah, Levantine Arabic: [mʊˈʕaːð ˈsˤɑːfi ˈjuːsef el kaˈsaːzbe, mʊˈʕaːz -]; 29 May 1988 – c. 3 January 2015) was a Jordanian fighter pilot who was captured and burned to death by the Islamic State militant group after his F-16 fighter aircraft crashed over Syria. Al-Kasasbeh's fighter jet crashed near Raqqa, Syria, on 24 December 2014 during the military intervention against the Islamic State. United States and Jordanian officials said that mechanical problems caused the crash, while ISIL claimed that a heat-seeking missile hit the plane. ISIL held al-Kasasbeh captive before killing him in early January 2015. Afterwards ISIL conducted negotiations with the Jordanian government, claiming it would spare al-Kasabeh's life and free Japanese journalist Kenji Goto in exchange for Sajida al-Rishawi, a woman sentenced to death by Jordan for attempted terrorism and possessing explosives. After the...
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