The attacks on civilians in Paris and aboard the Russian jetliner have galvanized global determination to confront the extremists.
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The photo, which has not been corroborated, was released by the group’s English-language online magazine.
In the latest issue of Dabiq, the Islamic State’s glossy online magazine, first disseminated through Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, a picture shows what ISIS says were the components of an IED: A Gold Schweppes Pineapple tonic water can and two devices containing wires that appear to be the detonator and the switch.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) said the plane was bombed because Russian Federation has ignored ISIS in Syria with its recent military action, allowing the group to gain ground.
The magazine said Islamic State had initially planned to down a plane belonging to a country from the US-led coalition targeting militants in Iraq and Syria.
The terror group claimed responsibility for the downing of Flight 9268 shortly after it crashed on October 31 in Egypt, killing all 224 people on-board.
Dabiq also published a photo of what it said were passports belonging to dead Russians “obtained by the mujahideen”.
It said “revenge was exacted upon those who felt safe in the cockpits of their jets”. “It says the investigation is ongoing and there is still no evidence of criminal activity”. The Russian airline Kogalymavia had said following the incident that it sees no grounds to blame human error for the Russian plane crash.
He said the attack is making Russian Federation more cooperative with the West in trying for a transition in Syria.
A stamp-like caption overlaid on one of the photos read, “Executed after being “abandoned by the kafir (disbeliever) nations and organisations”. In the images, the men both appeared to have been shot to death.
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The Norwegian has been identified as Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, a graduate student in political philosophy from Porsgrunn, south of Oslo.
