Though Congressman Ed Royce (R-California), noted that ISIS’ past makes the conclusion that they were involved logical. “I am not going to speculate on the intelligence”. “But as more information has come to light, we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device”.
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“We don’t know for certain that it was a terrorist bomb…”
Cameron grounded flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the likely attack should jerk the US into more aggressive military action against the terrorist group, which the USA has been fighting as part of an worldwide bombing campaign over the skies of Iraq and Syria.
“While the investigation is still ongoing, we can not say categorically why the Russian jet crashed”, Cameron’s office said Wednesday. Reporter: The Russian flight left from the sharm el sheikh airport in Egypt where now all flights to and from Britain are suspended because of what british officials told ABC news was lax security. In April, French police arrested a French radical directed in Turkey by French ISIS recruits to attack a church in Paris.
Elwell says, many steps are already being taken and have been for US flights.
“They want to hurt tourism and cause confusion.”
Reporter: Within hours, the islamic state there are group in the sinai said it was responsible for the Russian jet crash.
Egypt and Russian Federation. Both countries insist that British and American claims of terrorism are based on little evidence.
Egyptian officials have condemned Britain’s travel ban as an overreaction. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who was in London on a visit Thursday, has called the IS claim “propaganda”. “There’s still an investigation taking place in Egypt. We need to see the results of that investigation”.
The nature of the crash and the lack of an SOS call have fuelled speculation that it was caused by a bomb or missile.
“If ISIS did target Russian plane, what does it mean for “war on terror”?” questioned Guardian correspondent Jason Burke.
If ISIS was able to plant a bomb on the plane, “it’s a real game-changer for the region”, demonstrating that at least a few of ISIS’ grandiose boasts about its capabilities are true, said NBC News national security analyst Kevin Baron, executive editor of security analytics company Defense One.
Guided by his desire to extricate the United States from costly, intractable foreign wars, he has been loath to jump into new ones. There have been a few intelligence officials who viewed Isis as a regional problem, a group that wanted territory in Iraq and Syria, but were not thinking beyond that.
“So far, ISIS has limited itself to calling on individuals in the west to strike targets where they live, rather than directly controlling or commissioning complex attacks anywhere outside the Islamic world”, Burke explained.
A suspected ISIS gunman trained in Libya killed 30 British tourists and others on a Tunisian resort beach in June.
The senators previously introduced the legislation in 2013 but suggested that an escalation of the war, and USA involvement, led them to try again.
An expanded and potentially more lethal threat from ISIS to Americans could also scramble the assumptions that are now underpinning Obama’s policy towards the region.
At the same time, it could solidify Russia’s view that ISIS is an implacable enemy, as it is for the United States. Still, he said he believes there is enough reason to keep British citizens from flying back from Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular tourist destination in Egypt, until he’s sure it is safe to do so.
Russian Federation started launching airstrikes in Syria in September, saying it was coordinating with the Syrian regime to combat ISIS and other terrorists.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) introduced legislation that would block the administration from using any funding that would “have the effect of, supporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Syria by any nation, group, organization, movement, or individual”, according to the proposal. “(It’s) very sad what happened, but we have to wait for the result of the investigation”.
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The intelligence sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, said the evidence was not categorical and that there is still no hard forensic or scientific evidence to support the bomb theory.
