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UAE rejoins airstrikes on ISIS after ‘abominable’ execution
The United Arab Emirates announced Saturday it is sending a squadron of F-16 fighter jets to Jordan, resuming its participation in U.S.-led airstrikes on The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The announcement was made by UAE’s official government news agency, following the U.S. State Department’s announcement Friday that the Arab country had reaffirmed its commitment to the coalition and that suggested that “positive news” on the matter would be announced within the next few days.
The UAE stopped flying airstrikes over Iraq shortly after Jordanian pilot Lt. Moath al Kasasbeh was shot down in a mission over Syria and captured by ISIS in December. News reports suggested the UAE dropped out because the United States did not have enough search-and-rescue assets in place to assist downed planes.
The coalition has flown more than 2,000 air missions over the past few months, in the effort to stop the Islamic extremist group’s fast and deadly rise in the region.
The UAE’s announcement comes several days after a video surfaced online that showed the pilot being burned to death in a cage.
The pilot’s death resulted in outrage and condemnation across the world, including in the Muslim community. It also resulted in Jordan killing two jihadist prisoners, then ISIS saying Friday that a Jordanian air strike had killed American hostage Kayla Mueller.
Jordan has pledged harsh retaliation and said it would intensify strikes on Islamic State group targets. Starting Thursday, Jordanian jets have carried out daily attacks, according to the military and state media.
Jordan’s interior minister, Hussein al-Majali, told the state-run al-Rai newspaper in comments published Saturday that his country will go after the militants “wherever they are.”
The most recent airstrikes are “the beginning of a continued process to eliminate them and wipe them out completely,” he said of the militants who control about a third of neighboring Syria and Iraq.
UAE’s renewed effort is an attempt to stop “the brutal terrorist organization that showed all of the world its ugliness … through abominable crimes that exposed its false allegations and drew outrage and disgust from the Arab peoples,” according to the news release by WAM, Emirates News Agency.
The release also said the initiative comes from the “deep belief in the need for Arab collective cooperation to eliminate terrorism … through the collective encountering of these terrorist gangs and their misleading ideology and brutal practices.”
3 Comments on "UAE rejoins airstrikes on ISIS after ‘abominable’ execution"
gdubya on Sun, 8th Feb 2015 1:12 am
I read this article then saw the byline Fox News. Apparently they operate under no legal requirement to state the truth, so now I’m trying to figure out which part, if any, is false.
An odd way to digest news, and one reason why the US is low down on my trusted news sources.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 8th Feb 2015 2:41 am
Why does the picture show a row of zombies on the left and a prisoner on the right?
Why do they always dress their victims in orange prison jumpsuits? Is that a bit modern themed, for a group that is 800 years out of date?
Rah Rah Jordan Air Force, badda bing, badda BOOM. If they want to have a paradise in the after life, why wait, send ’em early.
The whole planet has had enough of ISIS, they so far to an extreme even Al Queda has written them off.
There is no room for them on Planet Earth. Get rid of them and don’t even leave one molecule of their DNA intact. Worse DNA than Ebola. Good riddance. ratta tat tat, ka BOOM.
Once their desert has been cleared of any life forms, easier to pump out the oil. For our Cadillacs our T-buckets and our 57 Chevy’s. Get a cheeseburger, at the Drive-In, get a chocolate shake with whipped cream, celebrating no more ISIS, not even their DNA left standing.
Ralph on Mon, 9th Feb 2015 8:43 am
The orange jumpsuits are prison uniform of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Every detail of any hostage taking by ISIS and all other Islamic terrorist groups before them is finely tuned to be an insult against the USA and its allies. However, most of the details are lost on the US public. No Muslim on the planet could fail to understand this symbolism.