Obama: Jordanian pilot’s murder is evidence of ISIS’s barbarity
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said that if the ISIS video burning Moaz al-Kasesbeh turns out to be authentic, it would be more evidence of the group’s viciousness and barbarity.
Obama stated in a statement, “On behalf of the American people, I offer my deepest condolences to Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh’s family and loved ones, to the brave men and women of the Jordan Armed Forces, and to King Abdullah II and the people of Jordan.”
“Al-Kasasbeh will forever personify the bravery of a true son of Jordan, one who honored his family and country by his seven years of military service. Along with his compatriots and other Arab and international members of the coalition,” said Obama.
“Today, the coalition fights for everyone who has suffered from ISIL’s inhumanity. It is their memory that invests us and our coalition partners with the undeterred resolve to see ISIL and its hateful ideology banished to the recesses of history.”
A website associated with the ISIS group militants has published a video footage that shows the detained Jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh being burned alive while locked inside a cage.
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