Fox News on Tuesday aired an image from the 22-minute video released by ISIS in which the terrorists apparently burn alive downed and captured Jordanian fighter pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh.
In the video, al-Kasaesbeh stands in a metal cage as the flames engulf his body. A front loader construction vehicle then piles rubble from the site he allegedly bombed onto his charred remains.
The images are graphic and, according to Fox News Bret Baier, were shown “to bring you the reality of Islamic terrorism and to label it as such. We feel you need to see it so we will put up one of the images on your screen right now,” he said.
“The images are brutal, they are graphic, they are upsetting. You may want to turn away. You may want to have the children leave the room right now,” Baier cautioned.
The video shows al-Kasaesbeh’s cruel execution in real-time. Baier describes the totality of the footage as “something you cannot unsee,” and it’s producers as “horrific and barbaric as well as calculating and skilled at high-tech propaganda.”
Failed negotiations for his release hinged on a trade for two terrorists imprisoned in Jordan. The Jordanian government vowed revenge for the pilot's death and announced late Tuesday that they executed two prisoners in response: jihadist Ziad al-Karbouli, and an Iraqi woman and alleged al Qaeda suicide bomber on death row for her role in a 2005 triple hotel bombing Jordan’s capital.
WARNING: the video below contains graphic still images.
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