Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) showed how it made an improvised bomb that the terror group said brought down a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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ISIS said it had exploited a security loophole at Sharm al- Sheikh airport, where the Airbus 321 originated, in order to smuggle a bomb on board.
President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation and Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi of Egypt have called for greater global efforts against terrorism.
It was first planned to target an aircraft belonging to one of the nations from the US-led Western coalition fighting Islamic State in the region, the magazine claimed, adding that it was later chose to attack Russian Federation over its military campaign in Syria.
In its online magazine Dabiq, IS published what it said was a picture of the explosive, apparently contained in a soda can, and a purported picture it said its fighters had obtained of passports belonging to dead passengers.
Russian Federation on Tuesday said a bomb had brought down the plane and vowed to hunt down the perpetrators, confirming suspicions raised earlier by Britain and the United States. Since then, ISIS published images of the bomb that was detonated inside the airplane, saying that the Russian flight wasn’t the original target. “This will remain with us forever”, Putin said in a statement.
Egypt is battling an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai, a strategic peninsula bordering Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal.
Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air strikes against opposition groups in Syria including Islamic State, on September 30.
Egyptian authorities have not given a specific reason for the plane crash, calling on all sides to await the results of the investigations led by an Egyptian expert team.
If they are unable to leave the building, NATSCO suggests people hide from gunfire behind “substantial brickwork or heavy reinforced walls” because “cover from view does not mean [they] are safe – bullets go through glass, brick, wood and metal”.
“It may have actually been easier or more manageable on a Russian plane, as opposed to perhaps more scrutiny on a British flight”, he said.
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Egypt, whose economy is heavily dependent on tourism, is yet to acknowledge whether a bomb brought down the airliner last month.
