World intelligence agencies are confirming what the Islamic State had been declaring recently, that it was a bomb planted by ISIS that took down a Russian passenger plane killing all 224 on board.
Evidence is continuing to mount that the Islamic State is responsible for the crash of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268. Many intelligence agencies are confirming the Islamic State’s claim that they took down the Russian passenger plane, killing all 224 persons on board, a little more than a week ago.
What the world’s intelligence agencies are really trying to determine is how the Islamic State planted the bomb on the plane, according to CNN. The airliner was headed from a resort town in Egypt to the Russian city Saint Petersburg when it crashed in the Sinai desert for no explicable reason other than the explosion. United States intelligence agencies are reporting that they believe that it is “99.9 percent certain” that it was, indeed, an Islamic State bomb that took down the plane.
Several countries’ intelligence agencies are working to confirm the Islamic State declarations but no one is really willing to say for certain that it was a bomb. Much of the evidence rests on the intelligence efforts of American and British intelligence agencies. They intercepted Islamic State radio traffic shortly after the crash. ISIS claimed responsibility, but did not reveal how they did it. The Islamic State had been known to highly publicize its actions in an effort to feed their propaganda machine.
Investigators from European countries have said that they have already analyzed the recordings from the plane’s black box and have determined that the crash was not accidental. The flight recorder has shown that an explosion did occur moments before the recordings stopped. At that time the plane was ascending and on autopilot. Doubters of the bomb theory point to a possible mechanical breakdown or a lithium battery failure and explosion.
Most of the passengers aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 were Russian citizens. So far, about 100 of the bodies have been positively identified using DNA analysis. The Russian media has also been reporting that many of the passengers had left children at home to take a vacation. The Russian media has been advocating for all of the orphans left behind by the disaster.
