Plane Crash in the Sinai 224 Dead

[ScottL]

Russian Plane Crashes in Sinai, 224 Killed - Jethro Mullen and Arwa Damon (CNN)
All 224 people on a flight from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg died on Saturday after their airliner broke into pieces in midair.

"Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a large area (about 20 sq. km.)," said Viktor Sorochenko, executive director of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee.

The flight's black boxes - the data recorder and cockpit voice recorder - have been recovered and will be analyzed.

While the Sinai Peninsula, where the flight crashed, is home to ISIS-affiliated militants, officials in Egypt and Russia dismissed their claim of responsibility for bringing down the Russian passenger jet.

The Egyptian military said militants in Sinai have shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapons that only shoot as high as 14,000 feet, far short of the 30,000 feet at which the plane was flying.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Another terror attack carried out by Christians shouting "Praise Jesus!"?

 

[GasMan]

Yup those horrible Christians. We should let more Muslims in the country and block Christian refugees...oh, wait, Obama already did that.

Carry on.

 

[ScottL]

Jumping to conclusions already gents?

 

[vitterd]

Jumping to conclusions already gents?

Why wouldn't they? If they turn out to be wrong......they just move onto the next round of bullshit......unless I bother too bump their idiotic statements.....at which point it becomes libtard this, welfare that.

 

[ScottL]

Vit I had no idea you felt that way lol

 

[ScottL]

And Joe, didn't you say the same trhing about the Malaysian airplane crash?

 

[The Guesser]

Why wouldn't they? If they turn out to be wrong......they just move onto the next round of bullshit......unless I bother too bump their idiotic statements.....at which point it becomes libtard this, welfare that.

Don't forget their latest innovative insult, calling people Paul's.

 

[festeringZit]

When guesser comes into a thread and says someone nailed it, you know for a fact they haven't.

 

[SheriffJoe]

And Joe, didn't you say the same trhing about the Malaysian airplane crash?

Don't recall but prolly.

Christian fundamentalists aren't shy about their destructive intentions so whenever a plane goes down my "9/11 instincts" kick in.

 

[SheriffJoe]

First on CNN: U.S. officials believe ISIS planted bomb on Russian plane

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/us-isis-planted-bomb-russian-plane/index.html

 

[Dave007inVegas]

First on CNN: U.S. officials believe ISIS planted bomb on Russian plane

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/us-isis-planted-bomb-russian-plane/index.html

Well at least they didn't blame it on a video.

:homer:

 

[SheriffJoe]

When guesser comes into a thread and says someone nailed it, you know for a fact they haven't.

 

[The Guesser]

Welcome Russia, to the quagmire that is Middle East Involvement. Enjoy your stay, it will be long and costly in many ways.

 

[Ricboff]

'.....................bring it on..............this shit is fun................................'

 

[ScottL]

Ash Carter Calls Russia A Threat To The World

Robert Burns, Associated Press
Posted: Sunday, November 8, 2015, 1:08 AM

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Saturday accused Russia of endangering world order, citing its incursions in Ukraine and loose talk about nuclear weapons, and said the U.S. defense establishment is searching for creative ways to deter Russian aggression and protect U.S. allies.

In remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after eight days of travel in Asia, Carter also expressed concern about China's expanding influence and growing military might. But he reserved his stronger words for Russia.

Carter said Russia is undertaking "challenging activities" at sea, in the air, in space, and in cyberspace.

"Most disturbing, Moscow's nuclear saber-rattling raises questions about Russian leaders' commitment to strategic stability, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons, and whether they respect the profound caution nuclear-age leaders showed with regard to the brandishing of nuclear weapons," he said.

His remarks were perhaps the strongest he has expressed about America's former Cold War foe.

"We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot, war with Russia," he said. "We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake; the United States will defend our interests, our allies, the principled international order, and the positive future it affords us all."

The backdrop to Carter's remarks is the reality that after more than two decades of dominating great-power relations, the United States is seeing Russia reassert itself and China expand its military influence beyond its own shores. Together these trends are testing American preeminence and its stewardship of the world order.

Carter cited several pillars of the international order that he argued should be defended and strengthened: peaceful resolution of disputes, freedom from coercion, respect for state sovereignty, and freedom of navigation.

"Some actors appear intent on eroding these principles and undercutting the international order that helps enforce them," he said. "Terror elements like ISIL, of course, stand entirely opposed to our values. But other challenges are more complicated, and given their size and capabilities, potentially more damaging."

"Of course, neither Russia nor China can overturn that order," he said. "But both present different challenges for it."

He accused Russia of stirring trouble. "Russia has been violating sovereignty in Ukraine and Georgia and actively trying to intimidate the Baltic states," he said. "Meanwhile, in Syria, Russia is throwing gasoline on an already dangerous fire, prolonging a civil war that fuels the very extremism Russia claims to oppose."

 

[Ricboff]

He accused Russia of stirring trouble. ............................. in Syria, Russia is throwing gasoline on an already dangerous fire, prolonging a civil war that fuels the very extremism Russia claims to oppose."

'.....huh?.........step aside, you had your turn.................................'

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Putin is just fuckin with the U.N. Nato and Obama.


He knows he dealing with ass clowns.


He’s also is smart enough to know a nuclear war would end his game. He’ll keep pushing until someone calls his bluff, then he’ll back off much like Khrushchev did in 1962.


He’s enjoying his 15 minutes of fame, I say, let him have it.

 

[superbeets]

The Kremlin said for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb did bring down a Russian passenger plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.
"One can unequivocally say that it was a terrorist act," Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's FSB security service, told a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin, according to a transcript published on the Kremlin's web site.

 

[superbeets]

Russia's FSB security service has offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for downing the passenger plane over Egypt.