[Navy Patriot]

ISIS in Sinai is one of the most active of all the ISIS affiliates and has bomb-making capabilities, according to U.S. intelligence. But if the group did plant a bomb on the plane, it would represent an increase in sophistication. The officials say ISIS has not proved to be nearly as advanced with bomb-making capabilities as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that U.S. national security officials believed were working on nonmetallic bombs to be smuggled onto planes.

Here is the US spin to try to distance Obama, CIA and covert ops support from ISIS and the bomb that was planted on the Russian airliner.

By a miracle of Allah! ISIS suddenly gets so smart they can make a sophisticated, difficult to detect, bomb AND defeat Western security measures at Tourist secure Egyptian airport.

[Thibodeaux]

you forget that the present government replaced the previous government and killed many of them. there are plenty of the displaced still lurking around and capable of planting the device as service crew at the resort.

the Brotherhood survivors might have become ISIS

[datura]

Security at Sharm is laughable at best. They take you out on the tarmac with your luggage, and match you with it, searching as they see fit. I’ve watched burka clad humans with no skin visible boarding aircraft. The baggage handlers? Who knows.

To say the system would be easily infiltrated is obvious.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

We had a dude with a shoe bomb trying to board a plane here. I don’t know why the O-bomb Amin. is so prone to denial.

[Smokin' Joe]

If you had the stuff, I really don’t see where a crude barometric trigger would be that hard to construct. After all, aren’t these the people who made all those contributions to math and science?