Saturday, October 31, 2015

reporting more details

AFP is reporting more details on the Islamic State (IS) group affiliate in Egypt that claimed that it downed the plane, without saying how, but there has been no official word on the cause of the crash.

The IS affiliate, which is waging a deadly insurgency in the Sinai, claimed that "the soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane" there.

It said this was in revenge for Russian air strikes against militants in Syria, where IS controls territories that straddle Iraq.
Three military experts said IS in Sinai does not have surface-to-air missiles capable of hitting a plane at high altitude.

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