Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh's wife: I found out on Facebook that my husband had been burned alive by Isis

When her mother first called her in tears, Anwar Tarawneh knew immediately that something was wrong. Her husband, Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh, was in the hands of Isis, after being shot down while flying an F-16 over Syria on 24 December. Jordan’s government was willing to negotiate his freedom, trading his life for a female al-Qaeda prisoner Isis wanted to have released, and Ms Tarawneh was at a sit-in protest at a university in Amman where students were expressing their support for him when she took the call.
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She wasn’t convinced by her mother’s explanation for her tears – that two of her siblings were quarrelling. “It was only when I opened Facebook on my phone that I saw the post, ‘Rest in peace, Muath,’” she says, her voice croaky with emotion. She still hasn’t watched the grisly video which shows Isis burning her husband alive in a cage. She collapsed shortly after hearing the news and was admitted to hospital. The tape is still stuck to her right hand, with a pink insert for the intravenous drip to which she was attached.
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