Amman.-Chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force today claimed the destruction of 56 bases of the Islamic State (EI) without specifying the location of operations, climbing after the death of one of its pilots.
We paid 20 percent of their capacities (EI); only the first day of the campaign to avenge the death of our pilot Muaz to Kassasbeh were destroyed 19 targets, said Gen. Mansour al Jobour press conference disseminated through national television.
He said the attacks «will continue and increase in the coming days that are determined to wipe out this terrorist gang» and said the Air Forces of his country has fulfilled 946 flight missions of 500 thousand made by the international coalition to date .
Late last year a coalition of 40 states, 10 of them Arabs came to stop the advance of EI, derived from Al Qaeda, the network created in the late 70s of last century by Osama Bin Laden supported the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Jordanian airman was captured when his fighter jet was shot down by the Islamists, who earlier this week released a film in which showed when burned alive inside a metal cage.
Confirmed the balance of military operations must have occurred during the last 72 hours and in the eve, participated the Hashemite monarch Abdullah II, according to official announcements.
Although the general to Jobour declined to provide details, you may have registered bombings in Iraq and Syria, where EI occupies large areas, besides having affiliates in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and countries of the Sahel.
