IS shows photo of plane bomb

The Islamic State claims it brought down the Russian passenger jet with an IED stashed in a soda can.

“A bomb was smuggled onto the airplane”, it said.

The items pictured in the magazine could have been sufficient for a suicide bomber to trigger the explosive device, former Royal Navy bomb disposal officer Dave Welch told The Telegraph.

The group said it “discovered a way to compromise the security at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport”, without providing further details.

May also cited another, “most likely” scenario for moving such a bomb through an airport: “An insider threat getting this item, circumventing security, getting it to the aircraft – if it was used on the aircraft”, May said. Egypt is conducting their own investigation into the security failings, but has been very opaque on the matter, refusing to admit that the plane was bombed at all.

In the magazine, ISIS said that it has initially planned to target a nation participating in the U.S.-led coalition, but chose to hit Russian Federation after it entered the war on the side of the Assad regime. 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.

A second photo published in the magazine also purported to show passports belonging to three Russian citizens who were killed in the plane crash. Putin announced that the Russian military would be coordinating with the French military on air strikes against ISIS held territory in Syria.

In its magazine, Isil boasted of the attack: “This was to show the Russians and whoever allies with them that they will have no safety in the lands and airspace of the Muslims”.

The government said it would “take into consideration” Russia’s findings but that it was yet to find any evidence of criminal action bringing down the plane.

Russian intelligence chief Alexander Bortnikov on Tuesday gave the first official confirmation from Russia that a bomb detonated aboard the Airbus 321-200, causing it to disintegrate and scatter wreckage over about seven square miles of desert.

In the days following the tragedy over Sinai, British media reported unconfirmed information suggesting that British jihadists might have been involved in the bombing of the Russian plane.