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(4 Feb 2015) Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn on Wednesday, a government spokesman said, just hours after Islamic State militants released a video purportedly showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.
Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani identified the two prisoners executed by hanging early Wednesday as Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly.
The executions took place at Swaqa prison about 50 miles (80 kilometres) south of the Jordanian capital of Amman.
At sunrise, two ambulances carrying the bodies of al-Rishawi and al-Karbouly drove away from the prison with security escorts.
Over the past week, Jordan had offered to trade al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber, for the pilot, Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh, but froze any swap after saying it had received no proof that the pilot was still alive.
Al-Rishawi had been sentenced to death after her 2005 role in a triple hotel bombing in Amman that killed 60 people.
Al-Karbouly was sent to death row in 2008 for plotting terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq.

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