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| 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.