Confirmed: it was a bomb that brought down the Russian plane
We knew it anyway, but now it’s official, according to Russia:
A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service said Tuesday, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin it’s now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a “terrorist” act.
The crash killed 224 people, which makes the death toll greater than that in Paris.
According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act,” FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said…
Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack.
“There’s no statute of limitations for this. We need to know all of their names,” Putin said. “We’re going to look for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them.”
We’ve been hearing a lot of those kind of threats lately. Wonder if he can back it up.
Although there have been no arrests (some accounts say there have been), there is a report that two members of the airport staff are being questioned:
Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport for questioning in connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31 that killed all 224 people on board, two security officials and an airport employee said on Tuesday
“Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm al-Sheikh airport,” said one of the security officials who both declined to be named.
One of the security officials said CCTV footage showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed airliner from beneath the plane on the runway.
I’m pretty sure the woman who is in charge of issuing airport access badges at our local airport is a Muslim. She has a strong Iranian (or maybe Syrian) accent. She’s in charge of vetting all the baggage handlers, airport employees, and general aviation pilots. Why does this bother me?
do not necessarily assume that it was isis, given russias prior history, they have attacked their own people more than once to achieve a political position.
EXCEPT:
Making history the soviet way without appearing to be soviets anymore… smoke, and mirrors, angleton said…
snopercod:
When I hear something like that I wonder “did someone make the decision to hire her to prove that he himself was not biased? Or is he just plain naive?”
Of course on rational reflection, one cannot assume all Muslims harbor evil intentions toward the rest of the American population. Until they prove that they do, at which time it’s too late to take any defensive measures.
[note whether the acts were “discussed” or actually committed, most of the stuff for the US were discussed but never committed]
Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria.“Mukden Incident”
Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.
Franz Halder also testified Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 — while blaming the attack on Finland
Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and falsely blame it on the Nazis [Katyn Forest massacre]
The British government admits that — between 1946 and 1948 — it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings
Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits
The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister
the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence
The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change
In 1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]
in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba
The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war
U.S. Congressional committee admitted that — as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign — the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists
in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner — a member of the Red Army Faction — which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.
Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization
John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
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i can list a lot more actual false flag actions in history, so its not so far fetched except to those ignorant of actual history as a huge repository of human behaviors…
Within 48 Hours After Muslim Atrocities in Paris, Obama Releases 5 More Terrorists From Gitmo
We have to let the refugees into our country before we can know what their intentions are——-Nancy Pelosi
We need to complete upend the paradigm that ISIS is using. We have not hit them hard because they hide amongst civilians. I read a report that Obama has given the word that there shall be ZERO civilian casualties. These rules of engagement have completely tied the hands of the military.
We should just level their headquarters town of Raqua; civilians at all. Set the first bomb sites on mosques. Don’t be surprised if Russia does this.
Civilians and all.
It must be Bush’s fault.
Which one? Hard to say, because there’s just so damn many of them. And at least two of them would say it has nothing to do with The Religion of Peace.
As Pal would say, all these problems naturally come as a result of deposing dictators in the ME that keep the terrorists in check.
Except, of course, that’s not what Russia is doing.
If the Russians have any idea of who did it, they will go get them. Unless, as suggested, it was a ruse by them.