Posted on 11/04/2015 12:52:47 PM PST by tcrlaf
The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The official stressed that there has not been a formal conclusion reached by the U.S. intelligence community. "There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane," the official told CNN's Barbara Starr.
The assessment was reached, the official said, by looking back at intelligence reports that had been gathered before Saturday's plane crash and intelligence gathered since then. The United States did not have credible or verified intelligence of a specific threat prior to the crash, however, the official said, prior to the incident, "there had been additional activity in Sinai that had caught our attention."
Another U.S. official said the intelligence regarding ISIS is in part based on monitoring of internal messages of the terrorist group. Those messages are separate from public ISIS claims of responsibility, that official said.
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The Russians don't fret much about collateral damages when going after bad guys.
There is going to be big blowback from this, and it's already started.
Clearing the Sinai would be a good start.
Putin’s silence speaks loudly
“Clearing the Sinai would be a good start”
Yeah...
If you have “ISIS of the Egyptian Desert in Sinai” anywhere around you, your window for getting on the road to Europe before the bombing starts is slipping fast.
@BillNeelyNBC
UK Gov’t about to claim knowledge of a new “specific threat” from Egypt’s Sinai. After raising concern about explosive device on Russian jet
Yep. I also knew when our regime said it wasn’t isis it had to be.
Wow...I have a feeling, too....that we should not be in Syria at all.
This is unsettling news.
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No way. Bunch of J-V misfits according to the highest power in the land.
A friend who has flown through that airport said security is lax there, and for that reason, figured it was a bomb days ago.
Soviets Offer 'How-to' Lesson 1986 and Muslims had kidnapped four Soviets
the KGB castrated a relative of a prominent Muslim leader and sent the severed organs to the Muslim, with advice that they knew of his other relatives.
The Soviets were pretty much left alone after that.
Don’t know, Hillary has been involved in lots of Bombs and she didn’t go down yet.
I’ll never understand why anyone living in a country with military operations in the Middle East would ever travel to that sh!t-hole.
Unless our involvement was requested, why are we even assisting in the downed Russian airplane in Egypt? I haven’t heard any Americans were on board. If not then why are we involved? Let Russia and Egypt figure it out.
Has Russia now overtaken as the “Great Satin”? Are they now Infidels too? Does moohamed now hate the Russians?
“A friend who has flown through that airport said security is lax there, and for that reason, figured it was a bomb days ago.”
Sharm has been on the warning lists for airport security for years, dating back to the 90’s, at least.
No way ISIS was responsible..it had to have been ISIL
I am still going to be conservative on this and say that there is still no evidence of a bomb. There was a Chinese plane a few years ago that also broke apart in flight - people also thought it was a terrorist plot but investigators think it was stress fractures in the pressurize plane cause the plane’s superstructure to fail.
Will not surprise me. The Russians do not take any garbage.
The newest term used by team Obama is “DASH”. Just don’t say ISIS!
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