The three components appeared to constitute a “suicide-type bomb” because the bomber would have to flip the single-throw rocker switch to detonate the bomb, May said.
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Another shocking disclosure which the Islamic Sate made was it originally meant to target a plane “belonging to a nation in the American-led Western coalition against Isis”, however the idea was later dropped.
“A bomb was smuggled onto the airplane”, it added. The authenticity of the photos haven’t been verified by officials.
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.
Clive Williams, a professor at the Australian National University’s Centre for Military and Security Law and a member of the worldwide Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, said the use of a soda can raised questions about whether the device was included in the catering supply. The group said that after its operatives infiltrated the Sharm el-Sheikh global Airport, they chose to target a Russian passenger plane.
IS, based in parts of Iraq and Syria, commands the loyalty of militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula who have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen. However, the Egyptian government said it still has not found evidence of criminal action. They were both “blessed attacks” according to terrorist-writers in the propaganda magazine, which aims to recruit western Muslim men to the so-called “caliphate”, a plan to take over the world and scrub it of Christians and all other non-Islamists. “This will remain with us forever”, Putin said in a statement.
The magazine stated the bombing was in response to Russia’s “rash decision of arrogance” to begin airstrikes on rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad.
That would fit with the plane being brought down shortly after taking off and the FSB has discovered a one-metre hole in a fragment of the plane’s fuselage.
Egypt has not officially given a reason as to why the plane was brought down, calling on all sides to await the official results of an investigation carried out by an Egyptian-led team.
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Earlier in November, Moscow suspended commercial flights to Egypt, allowing only return flights without luggage in order to get Russian citizens back home.
