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British Prime Minister David Cameron has denounced the "sickening murder" of a Jordanian air force pilot burned to death by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants.
His comments came on Wednesday after a Jordanian army spokesman confirmed the death of Lieutenant Moaz al-Kassasbeh, who was seen being burned alive inside cage in a video released online the previous evening.
Cameron said "ISIL's barbaric behavior will not stop the international coalition from fighting terrorism until these evil extremists and their poisonous ideology are defeated."
"We stand in solidarity with our Jordanian friends and we will continue to work with them and our other coalition partners to defeat ISIL."
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "This latest depravity will only redouble international determination to eradicate the evil that is ISIL."
First Lieutenant Muadh al-Kassasbeh’s F-16 was shot down over Syria on Dec. 24 during a bombing raid on ISIL positions near the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The footage of al-Kassasbeh's death was released three days after a video apparently showed the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto by ISIL militants.
Jordanian authorities had tried to secure Al-Kassasbeh's release, but ISIL initially made his freedom conditional on the release from a Jordanian jail of would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi.
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