Two days after news emerged that ISIS had burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death, the Middle Eastern nation has hit back.
Jordanian fighter jets carried out airstrikes Thursday then returned home to fly over the home of the slain 27-year-old pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, in the village of Ay in Karak governorate. King Abdullah II, there to offer his condolences to al-Kasasbeh's family, pointed out the military aircraft overhead as proof that Jordan was responding with force, according to the executed pilot's father.
The father, Safi al-Kasasbeh, told CNN that the King promised him that Jordan would avenge his son's death and bombard ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. On Thursday, he added that the King told him that 30 Jordanian fighter jets participated in the strikes.
"The homeland is entrusted to you all," he said alongside the King, in remarks shown on state television, referencing Jordan's military and calling for national unity. "... For you (troops), to honor Moath is to uphold your oath and to follow in his footsteps as soldiers for God, his prophet (and) Islam ... in defending this dear homeland."
The video of his son's execution came out Tuesday, though Jordanian authorities say they think he was killed a month earlier.
Whatever the timing, the proof and savagery of Moath al-Kasasbeh's death have moved many in Amman and elsewhere to not just condemn ISIS, but to vow strong actions against it.
Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani told CNN on Thursday that Jordan's response to the killing "will be strong and will be decisive."
"We will not let this crime of killing our pilots with the horrific way it was done pass without punishment," al-Momani said. "These people will be punished."
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