The Saturday crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, was immediately claimed by the local ISIS affiliate. Though most of the day that followed was people spurning this suggestion, the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper isn’t dismissing the idea so quickly.
“It’s unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out,” Clapper said during a Monday address to the Defense One Summit, saying there are a lot of holes in the ongoing investigation and too much that is not known about the incident.
Russian officials have said it’s too soon to determine the actual cause of the crash, but after suggesting Saturday it was likely a technical problem have since ruled that out. ISIS did not offer any details of “how” in their statement claiming responsibility either.
Most of the dismissing of ISIS’ claims center from the plane flying much higher than the anti-aircraft weapons they have could reach, though sabotage or a bombing of the plane itself still appears to be on the table, with no real alternative explanation being conclusively proven.
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The ~'more brains than explosives' bit might've reminded one of Peter Lance . That is to say, to down a plane from prison, you don't need a large bomb, you do need a friend, and the friend needn't be on the flight that gos down.
Clapper probably knows because their proxy army ISIS and the other violent Sunni Jihadist groups have the weapons we gave them to shoot these planes down, just saying. Also, didn't Clapper lie twice under oath to Congress?
Here's an idea for the next time we write a constitution …. If anytime a government official says something he/she can't absolutely prove to be true, then they automatically lose tens of millions of dollars out of their budget for the next several years.
I'd bet that would cut down on these stream-of-BS press releases. Of course, for someone like this who's never told the truth about anything, we'd get the side-effect of defunding the spy agency that spies on us.
Truth is relative! When the US government claimed that al-Qaeda was behind 9/11, few believed them. Now, when it's a question of attacking the US government's alliance with al-Qaeda in Syria, we're told that those claims are undeniably true!
If this crash proven to be act of terrorism, no one except US/Israel is responsible. Those who bring ISIS are either dumb or part of the these two countries who want to fool ignorant people.
If that would be the case, Russia needs to bomb the hell of ISIS in Libya, Syria and Iraq while at it.., but main question needs to be directed at where did these barbarians got their hand on such weapon, MOSSAD, possibly NATO leftovers of weapon in Libya, the guessing is sky wide for anyone.
The plane seems to have broken apart in flight. A technical defect causing that is almost unknown but it has happened at least once (to a Japan Airlines 747). The CIA exploitation is obvious designed to damage Putin at home. He's clearly afraid of body bags. He doesn't dare use his military forces in Ukraine and is using only a handful of jet fighters in Syria. So the idea of 242 holidaymakers being killed in revenge for Putin's activities in Syria is a beautiful propaganda weapon, even if it turns out to be untrue later. And since the real cause of the crash won't be known for quite some time, maybe even years, there's quite some "milage" in it. In addition, the Russian package holiday industry, which sends lots of tourists to Sharm el-Sheik and Hurghada, on the other side of the Red Sea, is seriously disrupted, inflicting economic damage. The CIA wouldn't be doing its job if it didn't exploit the opportunity to the full.
"[Putin] doesn't dare use his military forces in Ukraine"
Then why, in every other comment, on every other thread, do you insist that Putin is using his military forces in Ukraine?