JERUSALEM, Israel -- ISIS burned a Jordanian pilot alive, airing the gruesome murder as it has past beheadings.
The tortuous death of Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, the 26-year-old Jordanian pilot caged and burned alive by ISIS-affiliated terrorists, dominated the headlines again Wednesday.
The terrorists captured the pilot in December when his F-16 crashed in an area in Syria controlled by the group.
Early Wednesday morning, Jordan executed two al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist prisoners, including Sajida al-Rishawi, a would-be female suicide bomber.
Jordanian television aired a short statement by King Abdullah II from Washington. He is heading home early but will be meeting with President Barack Obama before he leaves.
The king urged Jordanians to support one another and show the world their "real value...in the face of these hardships, while Jordan warned of an "earth-shattering response" to the murder.
Kaseabeh's father, Muath al-Kasaesbeh, called on the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State to avenge his son's death. Like the king, he said the terrorist actions do not represent the "meaning" of Islam.
Meanwhile, increasing numbers of ISIS-affiliated jihadists are popping up across the globe.
Canada recently arrested members of an ISIS cell recruiting for the Islamist group in Ottawa.
Canadian officials suspect ISIS is behind two "lone wolf" attacks last October. The first took place at the nation's National War Memorial where a gunman killed a soldier and then entered the parliament where he was shot dead by police.
Two days later, a man suspected of ties to ISIS ran over two soldiers in a Quebec parking lot, killing one and seriously injuring a second before police killed him.
Israel is also seeing infiltration by ISIS-affiliated jihadists.
In early January, 15 Palestinian Arab members of an Islamic State cell in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) were taken into custody.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) suspects at least 30 Israeli Arabs have joined the Islamic State, including an Israeli Arab mother from Jerusalem now in Syria.
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