Jordan has said it is willing to hand over an Iraqi would-be suicide bomber – if a Jordanian pilot captured by the so-called Islamic State is freed, according to state television.<br /><br /> A statement read out on air quoted the government as saying that if Lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh was freed, it would release the female jihadist.<br /><br /> Several hundred people including the pilot’s relatives protested in Amman on Tuesday urging the authorities to meet the extremist group’s demands.<br /><br /> The 26-year-old pilot, who comes from an influential family, became the first prisoner from the US-led coalition to be taken by ISIL when his plane came down in Syria.<br /><br /> The Jordanian statement made no mention of the Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who has been held by the militants since last summer.<br /><br /> ISIL has threatened to execute both him and the Jordanian pilot imminently unless Amman frees the woman convicted over a bombing that killed nearly 60 people.<br /><br /> In Japan demonstrators gathered outside the prime minis
