US-Ally Jordan To Breach Western Protocol, Will Exchange Hostages With ISIS

Several days after a Japanese hostage held by the Islamic State was executed, with a second Japanese hostage, freelance journalist Kenji Goto likely awaiting the same fate unless the Jordan releases an ISIS prisoner, the middle eastern US-ally is about to dramatically breach western protocol of not negotiating with terrorists, and as the newswires reported earlier, is prepared to exchange said imprisoned ISIS would-be suicide bomber, however not for the Japanese captive of ISIS but for one of its own pilots held by the Islamic militants.
The WSJ has more details: “Mohammad Momani, Jordan’s minister in charge of media affairs and communications, said in a statement on state-run media that his government is prepared to release Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces death by hanging for her role in the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, if Islamic State releases pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh unharmed.”
‘Jordan’s position from the beginning was to safeguard the life of our son, the pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh,’ Mr. Momani said in the statement, released by Petra News Agency. The Jordanian statement came just hours before the supposed expiration of a deadline imposed by Islamic State for Jordan to release the prisoner in exchange for freelance Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 01/28/2015.