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ISIS Tactics May Have Backfired, Particularly in Jordan
(New York Times) Rod Nordland - ISIS' threat to kill a captive Jordanian air force pilot (and their failure to produce evidence that he was alive) did not achieve the intended effect of undermining support for Jordan's role in the international coalition bombing of the Islamic State. Now even skeptical Jordanians have begun rallying around their government's position and denouncing the extremists. "From Day 1 of Jordan joining the coalition against ISIS, part of our people believed it's not our war," said Oraib al-Rantawi, director of the Al-Quds Center for Political Studies in Amman. Naif al-Amoun, a member of Jordan's Parliament, said the treatment of captured Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh has "backfired against ISIS. Instead of dividing Jordan, Jordanians are more united behind their government."