IS insists it brought down Russian plane in Egypt
The Islamic State group on Wednesday
insisted it brought down a Russian plane
that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,
providing no new details but challenging
sceptics to prove otherwise.
The jihadist group had claimed on
Saturday that it downed the Airbus in
Sinai, where its Egypt affiliate is based,
but provided no details, prompting
scepticism about its involvement.
All 224 people on board the flight bound
for Saint Petersburg, mainly Russian
tourists, were killed.
Experts say the probe into the crash will
take time as they analyse recovered
black boxes and wreckage that was
strewn across a wide area.
In an audio statement posted on social
media sites on Wednesday, IS said it
would announce the details of the
alleged attack when it chooses.
“We are under no obligation to explain
how it came down,” IS said in the
statement, posted a day after it released
a video showing its fighters in Iraq
celebrating the incident.
“Bring the wreckage and search it, bring
your black boxes and analyse them, and
tell us the results of your investigation,”
a man said in the recording.
“Prove that we didn’t bring it down, and
how it came down. We will detail how it
came down at the time of our choosing.”
The group claimed that the plane was
brought down on the 17th day of the
month of Muharram in the Muslim lunar
calendar, the first anniversary of the
Egyptian affiliate’s pledge of allegiance
to IS.
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