In a grim echo of the terrible fate which befell Jordanian pilot
Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh the captives are clad in orange jumpsuits
amid crowds of jeering militants. The dreadful scene is said to have
unfolded in the northwestern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an oil rich Kurdish
stronghold where ISIS reportedly has a presence. In the nearly four
minute long video 17 of the Iraqi Kurdistan military forces are driven
one by one on the backs of white pick-up trucks with ISIS flag-waving
militants toting AK-47s accompanying each prisoner. At the end of the
clip the long line of cages can be seen retreating into the sunset over
the heads of massed crowds of militants.
Lt.
al-Kaseasbeh was filmed being burned to death by Islamic State
extremists in a nightmarish 22-minute film which was expertly edited
before being posted online.
Titled
'Healing the Believers' Chests', it showed the captured airman locked
in a cage before a trail of petrol leading up to its bars is set alight.
It
is thought he was immolated while heavily sedated before debris,
including broken masonry, is poured over the cage, which is then
flattened by a bulldozer.
Officials
believe Kasasbeh had been killed almost one month earlier, despite ISIS
attempting to carry out a prisoner exchange in return for the captured
pilot.
After the footage was released, Jordanian officials executed two Iraqi militants connected with ISIS.
They
included Sajida al-Rishawi, the female would-be suicide bomber whose
freedom ISIS had originally demanded in exchange for releasing
Kasasbeh.
Thousands
of Jordanian troops have been deployed to the country's border with
Iraq to stop Islamic State militants from infilatrating the country, it
has been reported.
The country has already carried out airstrikes on ISIS targets in revenge for the murder of their pilot.
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