The group also published a photo of what it said were passports belonging to dead Russians “obtained by the mujahideen”.
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And in its foreword, it claimed to reveal how militants “discovered a way to compromise the security at Sharkm el-Sheikh airport” to bring down the Metrojet airliner on 31 October.
The Airbus A-321 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was conducting a scheduled flight between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and Saint Petersburg in Russia when it crashed minutes after take-off, killing all 224 people on board.
Moscow has said it had seen those pictures released by the IS and was still investigating. But Dabiq said the Russian passenger jet was targeted after Moscow began its own air attack in September against Syrian rebel groups fighting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“It doesn’t take much to bring down a plane in flight if it’s placed in the most critical area of the aircraft, breaking the fuselage”, said May, a retired explosives enforcement officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin and France’s President François Hollande talked over the phone, and they agreed to coordinate an attack in Syria.
It said it initially planned to bring down a plane from one of the countries participating in the US-led coalition that has been striking it in Syria and Iraq.
“It (our campaign) must be intensified in such a way that the criminals understand that retribution is inevitable”, said Putin.
Ordering the country’s secret service to hunt down those responsible for blowing up the plane, he said the effort to bring them to justice should be exhaustive. Kevin Barry, an explosives expert and former member of the NYPD bomb squad, disagreed, saying that the purported bomb could very well have been detonated with a timer, a theory supported by a senior US official briefed on the situation.
Egyptian security officials have spent days interrogating airport staff, but an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that there have been no arrests made in connection with the bombing.
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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 FSB offers $50 million for information that will lead to the arrest of the culprits.
