HOSTAGE AMERICAN: ISIS Claims Hostage Aid Was Killed in Jordanian Air Strike, But PM Calls It a BS ‘PR Stunt’
Is ISIS trying to pull as fast one? Jordan needs to continue bombing the crap out of them, and we’ll see if our president follows suit.
Jordanian officials tonight dismissed a statement released by Islamic State militants that claimed a female American aid worker had been killed in an air raid as the ‘latest PR stunt’ by the terror group.
Kayla Jean Mueller, 26, who is understood to be the last U.S. hostage held by ISIS, allegedly died during an hour-long strike by Jordanian forces on the jihadis’ north Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.
Her death is not yet been verified by independent sources and could easily be a propaganda move by the terror group to lay blame for the woman’s death at the door of Jordan.
Tonight the Interior Minister for Jordan branded the statement a ‘stunt’ and said ISIS was trying to cause problems within the nation’s leadership.
Earlier this week the Kingdom vowed to destroy ISIS and stepped up airstrikes on the group’s de facto capital Raqqa after the militants filmed themselves burning Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasaesbeh to death while he was locked in a cage.
In August 2013, U.S. officials and Mueller’s family in her hometown of Prescott, Arizona had requested that her name not be published for fear of putting her in further danger.
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