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President Putin is offering a $50 million reward
for anyone who can find those responsible for
the bombing of Flight 9268. Russia has also
indicated it will expanded its strike force in
Syria with increase air strikes and will
coordinated with French forces in the
Mediterranean sea for air strikes.
The Islamic State of Iraq's propaganda monthly
online magazine, Dabiq reported that a group
that claimed to have downed Flight 9268, brought
the aircraft down with a bomb that was planted
in the soda can depicted in the photo (Schweppes
soda, Gold). The extremist group, Islamic
State’s Egyptian branch of ISIS, Sinai Province
claims they found a security loophole at Sharm
El Sheikh International Airport, and was able to
smuggled the bomb onboard Flight 9268.
The group did not offer any additional
information. However, crash investigators and
explosives experts don't believe that a soda can
this size could bring down an Airbus A321 unless
the explosive device was placed strategically
near a key part of the aircraft, such as the
fuel line. Until now, Russian
authorities and the Federal Security Service of
the Russian Federation (FSB) had officially
denied Flight 9268 was brought down by a bomb
and insisted the crash was due to mechanical
problems. |
