An article in the magazine claimed militants had been able to bypass the security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport and smuggle the bomb onto the plane.
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Egypt, anxious about the air disaster’s effect on its key tourism industry, has declined to say a bomb caused the crash and says an worldwide investigation is still underway.
Today, the English-language ISIS magazine, Dabiq, wrote: “The blessed attacks against the Russians and the French were successfully executed despite the global intelligence war against the Islamic State”.
The Islamic State on Wednesday released a photo purporting to show the bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet and announced the killing of two more hostages.
Egypt, whose economy is heavily dependent on tourism, is yet to acknowledge whether a bomb brought down the airliner last month.
ISIS is, however, believed to have influence at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport, and this might’ve included some way of letting an attacker bypass security.
The apparent similarities, the detonator and switch suggested the soda can device was on a timer, rather than operated by a suicide bomber, suggested a similar chain of events on the Russian airliner, some experts said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to track down the killers and offered a $50 million reward leading to arrests.
Russian officials confirmed this week that the recent downing of a passenger airliner over the Sinai Peninsula earlier in October was unequivocally a “terrorist act”.
All 224 passengers and crew – mainly Russians – were killed, with officials saying wreckage and bodies were strewn across a 12 square mile area. The bomb was in the cargo compartment, according to the Russian Daily Kommersant.
An image from Islamic State magazine Dabiq, verified by Storyful.
The Norwegian foreign ministry declined to comment on the claim.
ISIL demanded a ransom for the men’s release two months ago.
In its latest issue, it did not give any details about how, when or where they were killed. They claim that such a small group of radicals managed to put France into a state-of-emergency frenzy and encourages followers to engage in more, similar attacks.
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“Maybe today this grand coalition with Russian Federation is possible because it has evolved”, he said, referring to President Francois Hollande’s call to create a large coalition against the group.
