The Metrojet Airbus A321 took off from the Red Sea resort on October 31 but disintegrated over the Sinai desert 23 minutes into its flight to St Petersburg.
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The magazine claimed jihadists had initially planned to down a aircraft belonging to the U.S.-led coalition conducting an air marketing crusade against Islamic State fighters in Iraq & Syria.
The magazine also discussed the Paris attack Friday that left 129 dead and more than 300 wounded.
Western governments have said the plane probably was brought down by a bomb, and Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that it had reached the same conclusion. FSB believes the bomb contained industrially produced explosive such as plastique or TNT, and that it probably exploded in the passenger cabin, possibly beneath a passenger’s seat and next to a window towards the rear of the fuselage.
The picture showed a Schweppes pineapple can, along with a commercial grade detonator and what may have been a trigger switch.
Parts of the plane begin to break away before it quickly nosedives and hits the ground. All 224 passengers onboard were killed in the incident.
Reportedly, the ISIS was planning to bring down an airliner belonging to a country participating in the US led airstrikes in Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to intensify airstrikes against the terror group in the wake of the attack.
Two airport employees have reportedly been detained for questioning in connection with the attacks, according to Reuters.
Egypt’s interior minister told a news conference in Sharm al-Sheikh on Tuesday that there was “no information” about security lapses at the airport.
In a previous edition of the magazine, the group advertised the two hostages as being “for sale”, in effect a macabre ransom demand.
“We have no reason to doubt ISIL’s claim of responsibility”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, using an alternate acronym for IS. IS did not report where it had captured the men.
China’s foreign ministry also said in September that one of its missing citizens appeared to be in Islamic State captivity.
In its latest issue, it did not give any details about how, when or where they were killed. He said the attack is making Russian Federation more cooperative with the West in trying for a transition in Syria.
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“Russia is shifting because today Russian cruise missiles hit Raqqa”. The militant’s affiliate in the area, a group named Sinai Province, has emerged as an effective terror organization over the past few years.
