Posted on 11/05/2015 5:04:44 AM PST by McGruff
Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers coming home from an Egyptian resort, saying the claim was premature.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, insisted that aviation investigators were working on all possible theories as to why the Airbus A320-200 carrying 224 people crashed Saturday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board. He said naming just one possibility was mere speculation.
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Russian motive is for the internal masses...cant have the Russian public thinking Vlad bite off to much.
Putin wants to know exactly who did what with what before he takes action
The west has about wrapped this whole thing up and convicted IS and may be using it as an excuse to barge into Syria
After the west condemned Assad for a staged CW attack in Syria and tried to use that as an excuse to attack Assad, Putin is wise to be be wary of similarities now coming from the usual suspects using this disaster as a trigger
It is amazing how quickly the US came to this conclusion when the government never admits a bomb brings down one of ours.
A couple of updates:
Egyptian president: UK checked Sinai airport security 10 months ago, found it satisfactory - @AP
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee says it wants all foreign planes used by Russian airlines to be re-registered in Russia - @Reuters
Looks like I may have been correct...Putin just stopped all flights into Egypt. This is going to get very interesting.
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