article_snippet: (CNN)In CNN)In first interview since Islamic State militants burned alive a Jordanian pilot
article_snippet: Last December, ISIS captured Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh after Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh plane went down during airstrikes that were part of the United States-led coalition to defeat the terror group.
article_snippet: For more than a month, al-Kasasbeh's family, hailing from a high-ranking tribe considered especially loyal to Jordan's royal family, implored ISIS to let Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh go.
article_snippet: Hope that Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh could be spared ended in early February when a video emerged showing the 29-year-old pilot in a cage, being burned alive.
article_snippet: I think if ISIS, or Daesh as we call them, try to intimidate Jordanians ... just (has) the reverse effect," Abdullah said.
article_snippet: The pilot's killing "just motivated Jordanians to rally around the flag," The pilot said.
article_snippet: The barbarity with the way These people (ISIS members) executed our brave hero (the pilot), I think, shocked the Muslim world, especially Jordanians and people from this region," Abdullah said.
article_snippet: In the wake of the pilot's death, a Jordanian government spokesman vowed an "earthshaking retaliation.
article_snippet: Jordan has a "responsibility to reach out to eastern Syria" and to western Iraq where people have been "executed in large numbers" by the acronym ISIS, Abdullah insisted.
highlights_snippet: Abdullah: a Jordanian pilot's death has "motivated" Jordanians and "the gloves have come off" in fight against ISIS .