Egypt’s Leader Speaks to Putin on Russian Plane Crash

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in a telephone call on Wednesday where both leaders discussed cooperation in fighting extremism, the Egyptian presidency announced.

“The problem has been that in their initial military incursion into Syria, they’ve been more focused on propping up Mr. Assad and targeting the modern opposition as opposed to targeting those folks that threaten us, Europe, and Russian Federation as well”. The FSB specified that the reward would be paid in dollars.

FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said a bomb containing the equivalent of 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of TNT went off aboard the Airbus, causing it to break apart in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory.

The Metrojet plane had been returning Russian holidaymakers from the Sharm El Sheikh resort to St Petersburg when it broke up over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 on board. State-owned television carried the news from Moscow, but had no official comment either.

Russian Federation now has banned all commercial flights to and from Egypt. Officials in Egypt have shifted their focus away from the cause of the crash to speculation on what they consider a Western conspiracy against their country and the severe impact the crash is having on its key tourism industry.

“There’s no statute of limitations for this”. We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them.

The first point of the Russian blueprint called for intensified air strikes by the United States and Russia against rebel groups refusing to enter into these negotiations in order to force them to toe the line. “They are insane there, and we should destroy them”. Iran is a longtime ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has provided crucial economic and military backing throughout the uprising and subsequent civil war.

As of early this morning, however, it was unclear whether any bomb was in fact present, after officials denied an earlier newspaper report saying that security officials had found an ambulance stuffed full of explosives, apparently created to be used as a truck bomb. The official said this was in accordance with protocols worked out by US and Russian officials in October. “I ask the Defense Ministry and the General Staff to submit corresponding proposals”.

Putin said, “The combat work of our aviation in Syria must not only be continued”. On Monday President Barack Obama personally talked about the issue with Putin on the sidelines at the G-20 Summit in Turkey.

A group affiliated with IS claimed responsibility. “That’s exactly what I’ve been arguing for since we set up this anti-ISIL coalition and that’s what I’ve been arguing to all our coordination partners and those who have not been in the coalition over the last several years”.

Putin: “We will operate in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which provides for the right of states to self-defense”.

Putin: “All those who try to lend support to the criminals should know that the consequences of attempts to harbor them will lie wholly upon their shoulders”.