Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN)Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn Wednesday, following through on a promised strong response to the ISIS killing of pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh, a government spokesman said.

Put to death were Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi would-be suicide bomber whose release ISIS had previously requested, and Ziad Karbouli, a former top aide to the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the spokesman said.

Al-Rishawi was executed for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing at a wedding reception in Jordan that killed dozens. Karbouli was sentenced to death in 2007 after he was convicted of acts of terrorism that killed one person, the plotting of more terrorist attacks and the possession of explosives, the Jordanian spokesman said.

The executions come a day after video and stills appeared to show a Jordanian military pilot being burned alive while confined in a cage.

CNN is not showing images of the killing, which triggered global condemnation and prompted immediate promises of retaliation and protests in Jordan, one of more than 60 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The 22-minute video begins with an attack on Jordan's King Abdullah II, suggesting he is to blame for what happened to the pilot, Moath al-Kasasbeh.

A short time after the video became public, Jordanian military spokesman Mamdouh Al Amri said al-Kasasbeh was "assassinated" on January 3.

His statement indicates the back-and-forth in recent weeks between Jordan and ISIS about a possible prisoner exchange to free the pilot took place after his death. Jordan repeatedly had asked ISIS to show proof that al-Kasasbeh was alive.

1. What day of the week did the execution take place?
2. Who was executed?
3. What were their names?
4. Did ISIS try to get involved with either of them?
5. Which one?
6. What was ISIS's involvement?
7. Who led the coalition against ISIS?
8. Who spoke on Jordan's behalf?
9. What did he have to say?
10. Did he have to ask more than once?
11. What did he specifically ask?
12. Were any of the people executed women?
13. Which one?
14. What was her crime?
15. What did she do exactly?
16. Where did the bombing take place?
17. How many casualties were there at the reception?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Wednesday,
2. two prisoners
3. Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad Karbouli,
4. yes
5. Sajida al-Rishawi
6. ISIS had previously requested his release
7. U.S.
8. the Jordanian spokesman
9. he talked about why the prisoners were executed
10. yes
11. for ISIS to show proof that al-Kasasbeh was alive.
12. yes
13. Al-Rishawi
14. terrorism
15. she had a role in a 2005 suicide bombing
16. at a wedding reception
17. dozens

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(CNN) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant, is paying the price for pandering to the West, al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an audio statement released Tuesday.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West.

"I am not defending Omar al-Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media.

But, he said, "the issue isn't one of Darfur and solving its problems; the issue is one of making excuses for more foreign interference in the Muslims' countries in the framework of the contemporary Zionist Crusade."

The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country, groups that the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur.

"The Bashir regime is reaping what it sowed," al-Zawahiri said. "For many long years, it continued to back down and backtrack in front of American Crusader pressure."

He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden, and declaring "in an audacious lie that they had left voluntarily, then attempting to beg payment for that from the Saudi regime and the Americans."

Al-Zawahiri asked, "Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality, while it pretends to cry over the suffering of the people of Darfur? Why hasn't the United Nations and the international community intervened to lift the siege from Gaza, while it pretends to cry over the people of Darfur being deprived of relief and aid?"

1. Who issued a warrant?
2. When?
3. Who is named in the warrant?
4. What is he accused of?
5. Anything else officially in the document?
6. Does he agree with the charges?
7. What did Sudan do in response?
8. How much aid do these groups provide in Darfur?
9. What is al-Qaeda's production company called?
10. Who is second in command at al-Qaeda?
11. What does he accuse Sudan of?
12. Anything else?
13. anyone in particular?
14. Who does he want the UN to protect?
15. From what?
16. Is the arrest warrant just a local warrant?
17. What kind is it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the International Criminal Court
2. earlier in the month
3. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
4. pandering to the West
5. war crimes and crimes against humanity
6. no
7. he ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country
8. roughly half
9. as-Sahab Media
10. Ayman al-Zawahiri
11. pandering to the West.
12. expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there
13. Osama bin Laden
14. the Palestinians in Gaza
15. Israeli barbarity and criminality
16. no
17. an international arrest warrant