WORLD_ Jordan Vows to 'Eradicate' Islamic State

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Jordan Vows to 'Eradicate' Islamic State



FILE - King Abdullah II of Jordan speaks during the opening session of parliament in Amman, Jordan.

VOA News
February 06, 2015 5:02 AM

Jordan says recent airstrikes against Islamic State targets are only the beginning of its retaliation for the gruesome murder of a Jordanian military pilot captured in Syria in December.

Jordanian warplanes launched dozens of airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq Thursday after King Abdullah vowed an "earth-shaking" response to the killing.

Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told CNN television late Thursday that Jordan will go after Islamic State militants "wherever they are, with everything we have."

"We're going to go after them and we will eradicate them," said Judeh, who referred to Islamic State fighters as "cowards."

King Abdullah visited the family of pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh at their home Thursday. He said Jordan will continue the fight to defend its people and religion.

A slickly produced Islamic State video emerged this week, showing the pilot, locked in a cage, doused with gasoline and burned alive.

U.S. Defense Department officials said Thursday the Pentagon has moved aircraft and pilots to northern Iraq to better position themselves in search and rescue missions in Iraq and Syria. Some of the assets were moved from Kuwait.

The United Arab Emirates suspended its participation in the U.S.-led airstrikes on Islamic State after the Jordanian pilot was captured. It called on the U.S. to be better prepared to rescue coalition pilots captured by Islamic State.

Also Thursday, a leader of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters told VOA his ground forces are in need of military assistance in their fight against Islamic State

"NATO and the United States should understand that we need political and military assistance," said commander Wasta Rasul. "I ask formally that their ground forces participate in the war with us, and why should the Kurds do it alone as we fight on behalf of the world."

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