Subject: Morning Brief: Jordan Executes Two Militants Following Pilot's Death
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:53:54 -0500 (EST)

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Jordan Executes Two Militants Following Pilot's Death

Jordan Executes Two Militants Following Pilot's Death

<p dir="ltr"><b>Top news:</b> Jordan <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtPA8d16>executed</a> two militants at dawn Wednesday following the release of a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive by the Islamic State militant group.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Jordan has vowed to avenge the pilot, Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, and one of the militants executed Wednesday was Sajida al-Rishawi, whom Jordan had offered to trade for the pilot&rsquo;s freedom. The other executed militant was Ziad al-Karbouli, a former top al Qaeda lieutenant in Iraq.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Jordanian King Abdullah II was in Washington when the video was released, and he <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtRA8837>returned</a> home Wednesday to crowds cheering his decision to quickly move forward with the decision to execute the militants.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The case of the captive pilot has become a hot-button issue in Jordan, with some people criticizing the government for joining the American-led coalition against the Islamic State. Kasasbeh&rsquo;s plane was downed over Syria in December while participating in that campaign.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">"I want the state to get revenge for my son's blood through more executions of those people who follow this criminal group that shares nothing with Islam," Safi al-Kasaesbeh, the pilot&rsquo;s father, <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIi-sPooQCfBABzA35a3>told</a> Reuters.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><b>Taiwan:</b> A TransAsia plane <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtTA360b>crashed</a> into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 23 people. The plane, with 58 people on board, was captured on video clipping a bridge shortly after take-off.</p>
 
Middle East

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The United Arab Emirates <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtVA6fbe>suspended</a> its participation the American-led military coalition against the Islamic State after the capture of a Jordanian pilot.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A court in Egypt <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtXA38f5>sentenced</a> the prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Saudi Arabia has <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtZAdea0>reportedly been pressuring</a> Russia to ease its support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in exchange for raising global oil prices.</p>
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Americas

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alberto Nisman, the crusading prosecutor recently found dead in his home, <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtbA85ec>had drafted</a> an arrest warrant for Argentine President Cristina Fern&aacute;ndez de Kirchner.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The head of Brazilian state oil-giant Petrobras <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtdAce60>resigned</a> along with five other executives amid the fallout of a corruption scandal.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtfAea9c>said</a> his government will open an investigation into the purchase of luxury of homes by himself and his wife.</p>
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Asia

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;China <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjthA9b17>announced</a> that blog and chat room users will have to register their real names with operators and sign a promise not to challenge the communist political system.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;China&rsquo;s central bank <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtjA72ff>announced</a> a reduction in the reserve requirement for central banks.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtlA3324>faces</a> a growing backbench revolt.</p>
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Europe

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The German cabinet <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtnA71e4>approved</a> a draft measure aimed at halting travel by the country&rsquo;s Muslims to join and fight alongside radical groups in Iraq and Syria.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Heavy shelling in eastern Ukraine <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtpAe478>claimed</a> the lives of at least five people.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;French police <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtrA1d65>arrested</a> a man thought to have attacked three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice.</p>
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Africa

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Human testing of a new Ebola drug <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjttA5b13>has been halted</a> because of a decline in cases.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nigerian and Chadian jets <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtvA56da>bombed</a> Boko Haram militants as the group&rsquo;s fighters attacked Cameroonian troops at a border town.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Machete-wielding assailants <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728wg5.1zf8/VNIyT0mO1ZfYEjtxA3f0a>killed</a> at least 21 people in an attack on a town in north-eastern Congo.</p>
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- By Elias Groll 

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