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    Default A mess in the making for the UK?

    So we now reportedly have 2k plus UK tourists in Sharm-el-Sheikh stranded, plus more who cannot get there at home. One of the bigger travel operators has 1700 alone.

    Tomorrow President Sisi is due to visit London, on a state visit and already Egyptian diplomats are angry - as tourism to Sharm is effectively over for the UK, however temporary. Before the halt to UK flights he was interviewed by the BBC and claimed all of Sinai was under control:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34703978
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    Pretty good evidence here. High probability this was an ISIS bomb from inside the plane.
    https://twitter.com/robpulsenews/sta...43750382837760

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    It may have been a bomb, but is that what Daesh was claiming? I thought they claimed that they shot the plane down.

    If I had really brought the plane down I think I would know how I did it.
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    Kremlin says US or Israel shot down #7K9268:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/RobPulseN...23816870002688

    What is the Obama WH doing about this? ZERO.
    http://observer.com/2015/11/obama-fa...ganda-machine/

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    Default Amidst the smoke some conclusions

    From Jason Burke, the SME on terrorism for The Guardian, he concludes that:
    If it was indeed an Isis bomb that brought down the plane – and both Egypt and Russia have downplayed any suggestion that the crash is linked to terrorism – then this still does not signal that the group has launched a fully fledged global campaign of violence. Yet.
    Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-war-on-terror

    The Soufan Group briefing ends with:
    Beyond the immediate theater of the Syrian civil war, the international community will have to recalculate the degree to which the threat from terrorism has increased as a result of the Islamic State joining al-Qaeda as a group capable of attacks outside its main area of operation. It is depressing that after 14 years of counterterrorism measures that have focused in particular on protecting civilian aviation, the threat to passenger transportation seems as real as ever.
    Link:http://soufangroup.com/tsg-intelbrie...skies/?catid=3
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    Default Amidst the smoke there was chatter beforehand

    The Egyptian security shutdown was sparked after British spies intercepted messages which showed Isil extremists had plotted a major terror attack in the region, the Telegraph can disclose. The communications and “chatter” - uncovered by British intelligence only after the Russian passenger jet tragedy - are what led David Cameron to say it was “more likely than not” that a bomb brought the plane down on Saturday killing 224 people.
    Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...air-crash.html
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    Al Arabiya English ✔ @AlArabiya_Eng
    #BREAKING Black box confirms 'violent, sudden' demise of Russian jet: investigation source
    http://ara.tv/zrhqn

    ISIS reportedly warned of 'something big in the area' before the Russian plane went down in Egypt
    http://read.bi/1PfrME1

    Sound of explosion heard on Russian plane's black box: French TV
    http://reut.rs/1OtPDzQ

    Unprecedented: US & UK shared #SinaiCrash intel w/#Russia before #Putin suspended Russian flights to Sharm
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    In a new news re #Sinai plane crash a new report revealed a #UK plane barely survived a missile fired near Sharm el-Sheikh last year..

    Reports that an IS SAM missed an UK airliner by 300 meters in August this year....UK and US kept it quiet.
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 11-07-2015 at 03:57 PM.

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