King Abdullah was greeted by crowds of supporters as he returned to Jordan after a trip to the US
King
Abdullah II has returned to Jordan for crisis talks after curtailing a
trip to the US following the killing of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic
State.
He landed in Amman a day after IS posted a video appearing to show pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive.
Jordan executed two convicts, including failed female suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi, in response.
Lt Kasasbeh was seized after crashing during a bombing mission by the US-led coalition over Syria in December.
Jordan had sought to secure Lt Kasasbeh's release in a swap involving Rishawi, but IS is believed to have killed him a month ago.
The BBC's Paul Adams in Amman says talk of an exchange appears to have been a IS tactic to string Jordan along and foster doubt among Jordanians over its role in the US-led coalition.
Lt Kasasbeh's father: "I demand Islamic State should be wiped out"
The king was greeted by a crowd of several thousand people at Jordan's main airport, with many holding up pictures of the monarch, the pilot and the country's flag in a show of support.
He then held a meeting with security chiefs, Reuters news agency reported.
In addition to the horrific voyeurism of the latest hostage murder video from IS, something else stands out - the total inability of the US and its coalition allies to save hostages from the clutches of IS.
For all its multi-billion-dollar intelligence-gathering agencies, its satellites in space, and its highly trained special operations teams, Washington has been unable to mount a successful hostage rescue mission in IS territory.
So this video is not just a warning to Arab pilots taking part in the US-led air strikes, it is a calculated mockery of coalition impotence to stop them murdering their hostages, slowly, in broad daylight, at a time of their choosing.
Everyone knows their base is in Raqqa in northern Syria, and it is no secret that other hostages are still in IS hands.
Efforts may now be increased to find them but an earlier US rescue mission failed, and planners will be looking at the long odds against another one having any more success.
Mamdouh al-Ameri, a spokesman for the Jordanian armed forces, described Lt Kasasbeh as a "martyr" and said their "revenge will be as huge as the loss of the Jordanians."
Failed suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi had been on death row in Jordan for nearly a decade
Safi al-Kasasbeh, the pilot's father, called on Jordan's government to do more than execute prisoners
Rishawi had been on death row for her role in attacks in Jordan's capital, Amman, which killed 60 people in 2005. Karboli was convicted in 2008 of killing a Jordanian national.
IS militants had sought Rishawi's release as part of a deal to free captive Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, but later killed him.
Calls for revenge Safi al-Kasasbeh, the pilot's father, called for the Jordanian government to do "more than just executing prisoners".
"I call for [IS] to be eliminated completely," he told reporters on Wednesday.
An official Saudi Arabian source quoted by the country's SPA news agency described the killing as a "barbaric, cowardly act, which is not sanctioned by the principles of tolerant Islam... and cannot be perpetrated except by the bitterest enemies of Islam".
Arab League secretary general Nabil al-Arabi said the killing was "brutal" and "beyond belief", adding that IS was "a menace which should be stopped".
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar University in Egypt and one of the leading authorities in Sunni Islam condemned the killing, saying the burning to death of Lt Kasasbeh violated Islam's prohibition on the mutilation of bodies.
King Abdullah met President Obama at the White House before returning home from the US early
Lt Kasasbeh is the first member of the US-led coalition to be killed by IS.
Jordan is one of four Arab states to have taken part in the anti-IS air strikes in Syria. The other countries are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the UAE suspended its involvement in the strikes after Lt Kasasbeh was captured in December.
It cited US officials as saying the UAE wants the Pentagon to improve its search-and-rescue efforts in Iraq before it resumes bombing missions.
25 December 2014: Pilot's father urges IS to show mercy
20 January 2015: IS threatens to kill two Japanese hostages unless Japan pays $200m ransom within 72 hours
24 January: IS releases video of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture apparently showing Haruna Yukawa's decapitated body
24 January: IS calls for release of Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi militant sentenced to death in Jordan
28 January: Jordan offers to release Rishawi in exchange for Lt Kasasbeh
29 January: Deadline to kill Lt Kasasbeh and Mr Goto expires
31 January: Video released appearing to show Kenji Goto's body
3 February: Video released appearing to show Lt Kasasbeh burnt alive, with Jordanian media suggesting he was killed weeks earlier
Profile: Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh
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