“The self-declared Islamic State’s propaganda magazine also printed pictures of Russian passports of the alleged victims onboard, implying affiliates of the group got to the site of the crash before the Egyptian authorities last month”.
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The group said in the magazine that the original plan was to bring down a plane that belongs to the Western anti-IS coalition led by the U.S., but after Russian Federation started directly bombing IS targets in September, their target changed.
A British passenger jet may have been the initial target in the Sharm el Sheikh terror attack, it is feared as Isil taunted Russian Federation with an apparent image of the bomb that brought down one of its planes.
The group said it had smuggled the improvised explosive device onto the Russian airliner after discovering a “way to compromise the security” at Sharm al-Sheikh airport. Moscow has provided arms and money to Abdel El Sisi’s government, but now Putin has deployed special services to find those responsible for bringing down the Russian Metrojet passenger plane which killed more people than the Paris attacks.
“While the Egyptian-led investigation has not officially concluded, we assess it is likely that this was an ISIL terrorist attack”, a White House official said in a statement.
“According to an analysis by our specialists, a homemade bomb containing up to 1 kilogram of TNT detonated during the flight, causing the plane to break up in mid air, which explains why parts of the fuselage were spread over such a large distance”, said Bortnikov.
“We have no reason to doubt ISIL’s claim of responsibility”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, using an alternate acronym for IS.
The detonator and switch suggested the soda can device was on a timer, rather than operated by a suicide bomber, some experts said. The report cited anonymous sources and could not immediately be verified. “That their daily killing of dozens in (Syria) through their air strikes will only bring them calamities”.
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IS commands the loyalty of militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula who have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen. In the wake of the attacks, France launched new airstrikes on Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria. An unnamed security official said 17 people were being held, two of them on suspicion that they helped someone plant the bomb on the plane.
