Manufacturing Silence: On Jordan's ISIS War, Arab Authoritarianism, and US Empire

Manufacturing Silence: On Jordan's ISIS War, Arab Authoritarianism, and US Empire

 On 24 December 2014, ISIS reported and the US-led coalition confirmed
that a Jordanian fighter pilot, Mu‘ath al-Kassasbeh, had crashed in
Syria and was now in ISIS custody. On 3 February 2015, ISIS released a
video showing its own members murdering the pilot by immolation. The
Jordanian regime vowed revenge. Some Jordanians took to the streets in grief and anger. The Jordanian Armed Forces, for its part, intensified its bombing campaign in Syria.

  

[Royal Jordanian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon
aircrafts fly alongside a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft
while waiting to connect for fuel over Jordan on 19 October 2009.