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Warplane 'not shot down by ISIS'

Claims US; Jordan vows to save pilot

AFP, Amman
Jordan yesterday vowed to make every effort to save a pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria as Washington denied claims the jihadists shot his warplane outofthe sky.
Maaz al-Kassasbeh, a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the Jordanian air force, was captured by ISIS on Wednesday after his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission against the jihadists over northern Syria.
It was the first warplane lost and the first capture of a serviceman since the coalition launched strikes against ISIS in Syria in September.
It was also a major propaganda victory for the Sunni extremist group, which released several photographs parading the captured pilot.
"The Jordanian government... is making all efforts with several crisis cells to free (the pilot)," government daily Al-Rai said in an editorial yesterday.
Kassasbeh's plane went down near the Syrian city of Raqa, which ISIS has used as its de facto capital and where coalition warplanes have carried out regular strikes.
The jihadists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed the plane was brought down by an anti-aircraft missile, raising concerns for other coalition planes flying in the area.
But the US military dismissed the claim, saying "evidence clearly suggests that ISIL did not down the aircraft", using another name for IS.
"We strongly condemn the actions of ISIL, which has taken captive the downed pilot," US Central Command chief General Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed for the pilot's captors to treat him humanely.
An activist in Raqa said ISIS militants were
divided over the
fate of the pilot, with more extremist foreign fighters wanting him executed and others wanting him kept alive.
Despite the loss of the plane, the coalition was reported to have launched further air strikes. The Observatory, which monitors Syria's conflict with a wide range of local sources, said four strikes had been carried out late yesterday against ISIS positions in Kobane, where Syrian Kurdish fighters have been holding off an IS offensive. Several other coalition strikes took place at Bukamal near the I raqi border, it said.
Elsewhere in Syria at least 30 ISIS fighters were killed in clashes with Kurdish militia in the northeastern Hasakeh province, it said.
ISIS has committed widespread atrocities in areas under its control, including mass executions of captured soldiers and public beheadings of hostages including Western journalists and aid workers.