Is this the bomb that brought down the Russian jet in Sinai?

Photographed next to the Schweppes Gold can, are two wire and cord formations that appear to make up the makeshift trigger of the alleged device. The report cited anonymous sources and could not immediately be verified. It said the attack was to avenge Russia’s air campaign against the group in Syria.

THE ISIS militant group has released the new edition of its propaganda magazine, in which it claims to reveal how it brought down the Russian jet over Sinai.

The detonator and switch suggested the soda can device was on a timer, rather than operated by a suicide bomber, a few experts said.

“I imagine that the Russians are now looking again at the passenger and crew manifest to see if there are any connections, but I personally have doubts”.

The United Kingdom banned flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, where the plane had taken off, on November 4.

“While the Egyptian-led investigation has not officially concluded, we assess it is likely that this was an ISIL terrorist attack”, a White House official said in a statement.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed “close cooperation” between their security services, the Kremlin said.

The Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for Friday’s coordinated terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded hundreds more.

In its online magazine Dabiq, the group 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.

An article in the magazine claimed militants had been able to bypass the security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport and smuggle the bomb onto the plane. Western officials had earlier said they suspected a bombing.

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. The bomb was allegedly smuggled onto the airport “to show the Russians and whoever allies with them that they will have no safety in the lands and airspace of the Muslims”.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday that the U.S.is not in a position to confirm “the veracity” of the magazine’s claim.

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.