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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.
Jordan confirmed the pilot's death and vowed a swift and lethal response.
Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani identified the two prisoners executed by hanging early on Wednesday as Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly.
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.
A convoy was seen leaving Juweideh prison before dawn on Wednesday where al-Rishawi had been held.
The convoy arrived at Swaqa prison, where executions have been carried out in the past, though it was not clear if al-Rishawi was in one of these vehicles.

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