ISIS demands female extremist swap after claiming beheading of Japanese hostage

ISIS demands prisoner swap after claiming beheading of Japanese hostage

Shortly before ISIS released a video in which they claimed to have beheaded one of two Japanese hostages they were holding, the terror group demanded the release of a female extremist in return for the hostage.

 Sajida al-rishawi is an Islamist on death row  in Jordan after she confessed that she had tried to blow herself in an Al Qaeda attack in Amman, Jordan alongside her husband.

In 2005, she revealed that her bomb failed to go off and she was arrested at the Radisson Hotel.

“We went into the hotel. My husband took a corner and I took another.” Rishawi reveals in a footage.

“My husband executed the attack. I tried to detonate and it failed. People started running and I ran with them.”

Along with two other suicide bombers belonging to Al Qaeda, her husband killed themselves and 60 other people in the three separate attacks at the Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels.

Rishawi was sentenced to death but still remains imprisoned in Jordan after she retracted her confession and is not appealing her sentence.

Meanwhile, ISIS said no to their earlier demand  of $200 million from the Japanese government after capturing the two men.

They have reportedly said they want Jordan to release female militant Sajida al-Rishawi.

The remaining hosage, Kenji Goto Jogo says if this does not happen then he will be killed next.

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