Swedish man convicted for his role in 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State group

STOCKHOLM AP A Swedish man was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for his role in the killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State militant group Swedish media communicated The -year-old Jordanian st Lt Mu ath al-Kaseasbeh was taken captive after his F- fighter jet crashed near the extremists de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria He was forced into a cage that was set on fire in early The suspect identified by Swedish prosecutors as Osama Krayem is alleged to have traveled to Syria in September to fight for IS Swedish prosecutors say Krayem armed and masked was among those who forced al-Kaseasbeh into the cage The pilot died in the fire Krayem was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday Swedish news agency TT shared He was indicted by Swedish prosecutors in May on suspicion of committing serious war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria He was previously convicted in France and Brussels for fatal Islamic State attacks in those countries The airman became the first known foreign military pilot to fall into the militants hands after the U S -led international coalition began its aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in Jordan a close U S ally was a member of the coalition and the pilot s killing appeared aimed at pressuring the regime of Jordan to leave the alliance In a -minute video circulated in purportedly showing al-Kaseasbeh s killing he displayed signs of having been beaten including a black eye He is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit and standing in an outdoor cage as a masked militant ignites a line of fuel leading to it The footage widely published as part of the militant group s propaganda sparked outrage and anti-IS demonstrations in Jordan In Krayem was among men convicted by a special terrorism court in Paris for involvement in a wave of Islamic State attacks in the French capital in targeting the Bataclan theater Paris caf s and the national stadium The assaults killed people and injured hundreds particular permanently maimed Krayem was sentenced to years in prison for charges including complicity to terrorist murder French media informed that France agreed in March to turn Krayem over to Sweden for the probe and trial In a Belgian court sentenced Krayem among others to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder in connection with suicide bombings that killed people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy subway station in the country s deadliest peacetime attack Krayem was aboard the commuter train that was hit but did not detonate the explosives he was carrying Both the Paris and Brussels attacks were linked to the same Islamic State setup Source