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Photo: Retaliation

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06 February 2015

reuters

Retaliation: Jordanian police drive away after two Iraqi detainees were executed at Swaqa prison, 45 miles from Amman, early on Wednesday. Jordan killed Ziyad Karboli and Sajida al-Rishawi, a convicted female militant, hours after Islamic State released a video showing the captured Jordanian pilot, Muath al-Kasaesbeh, being burned alive in a cage. King Abdullah II curtailed a trip to the United States to return to Jordan on Wednesday morning

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