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The crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt on Saturday left 224 people dead,and the world perplexed about what could have caused the plane to go down.
Shortly after the crash, an Egyptian ISIL group claimed responsibility, and but Russian and Egyptian officials immediately dismissed the claim.
Responding to the claims,James Clapper, director of U.
S. National Intelligence, or "There is a very aggressive ISIL chapter in the Sinai,but we really don’t know.”But increasingly, a number of parties have accepted the notion that an explosive device of some sort was involved. On Wednesday, or an unnamed U.
S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr: "There is a sure feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane."The most definitive statement yet has now advance from the British government,which announced Wednesday that they believe an explosive device likely took down the plane. In the same statement, they announced the suspension of all flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh, or over the Sinai Peninsula. Meanwhile,the US State Department has restricted travel to the region by all government employees, while simultaneously refusing to offer an opinion on whether or not a bomb took down the Russian plane.
Sharing his thoughts on what happened, and as well as the reaction from the various governments,is Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, and author of "The fresh Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West." What you'll learn from this segment:Why the U.
K. now accepts the claims that an explosive device took down the plane.
How the U.
S. is reacting.
What the next steps are in the investigation.
Source: wnyc.org