ISIS Magazine Posts Alleged Photo of Russian Plane Bomb

Egypt’s government is ready to work with Moscow to fight terrorism, or so it says.

“And it would have shown up even on an egyptian scanner if it was carried by a passenger”. The group claimed that it was a form of bomb that had been used to blow off the Russian aeroplane, killing all 224 people on board. Russian Federation has also put a $50-million bounty out for anyone that can help find those responsible.CCTV America’s Adel El Mahrouky reports from Cairo.

May said the bomb looked very simple but once taken aboard planes it becomes lethal.

On Tuesday, Russia’s security chief Alexander Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin the bomb equivalent to up to 1kg of TNT had been planted on board the Metrojet Airbus 321 that crashed in the Sinai peninsula on 31 October. “This would be within the competency of Islamic State”, he said. It was not immediately possibly to verify the authenticity of the photos published in the magazine.

In its online magazine Dabiq, the group on Wednesday published what it said were pictures of the explosive, apparently contained in a soda can, and of passports obtained by its fighters that had belonged to the dead passengers. “That their daily killing of dozens in (Syria) through their air strikes will only bring them calamities”.

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, a few experts said.

But in a worrying message, the group said it only switched its target to Russian Federation following its decision to launch airstrikes in Syria and had been planning to target a member of the Western coalition.

Egypt is battling an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai, a strategic peninsula bordering Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal. The Russian campaign to bolster support for Syrian President Bashar Assad began on September 30.

North Sinai is at the epicentre of the insurgency and most attacks target security forces there, with ISIS’s affilaite group being one of the most active militant groups in it.

“It may have actually been easier or more manageable on a Russian plane, as opposed to perhaps more scrutiny on a British flight”, he said. Western intelligence agencies have said that a bombing was the likely cause of the disaster, citing intelligence gathered in the wake of the crash, but clear forensic evidence has been scarce.