isis affiliated group carried this out. although i was told as well that they aren t ruling out other groups. the sinai desert is an area where there is a lot of melt tant and insurgent groups. and russia leakily but not necessarily was the target in terms it of the2 plane. there are still a lot of concerns about how insecure this entire region is. and genesee is general sisi now president sisi has a lot of as well. there are lot of dots to be connected. it does appear that u.s. and western intelligence officials are beginning to say this was a bomb and it was likely isis. conor, thank you. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here.wfh+$ @&c@ catherine, what are your sources telling you? well, the way it was explained to me today by two separate sources is that the evidence points to an explosion, the likelys scenario is a bomb and that they are focused on this@@ isis affiliate. what s significant this evening is that the
they suspected the evidence was starting to show that there was a bomb on board this flight. now, a few hours later, you begin tows see american officials say that the evidence was mounting. that there was a bomb on board. it was not brought down by a mechanical malfunction. they are beginning to say although not with sleuth certainty that they think isis had something to do with this attack. there is still not concrete evidence one way or another. there is issues about whether or not there is bomb residue at this site. that does give a lot of u.s. intelligence officials some colonel. they are also not sure who actually carried this out. there is no evidence now of a suicide bomber and they are still trying to figure out how this bomb got on the plane. but most of the evidence is point mounting and leaning u.s. intelligence officials towards the belief that there was some type of bomb flight. but a lot of questions% remain. but it is beginning to look like possibly isis or an
they should be. do you think they are? that s a good question. i think putin is going to i don t think he is going to ask anybody s permission. that s for sure. ambassador, thank you, sir. thank you. and right now let s bring in former united airlines pilot and ceo of arrow consulting experts captain ross/vm[z amer. rusty. rusty, nice to talk to you. good to be with you, greta. and it hasn t confirmed that s it s a bomb. it certainly is looking in that direction that it s a bomb. all these russian citizens on this plane investigationers. what is your assessment of this? greta, this is a entirely different situation from the previous air disasters we had. with the exception of maybe lockerbie. you are probably too young to remember that one. i remember it. this time we have the blackuax boxes. we have pieces of this aircraft scat ated of
this tragedy that it was a blow-up in the the air al altitude. perhaps at 33,000 feet. so, if it was a missile, a bomb, or even an explosive decompression of( such, they should be able to know it from the debris field. the question becomes if the debris field is left unmolested, for the scientists and accident investigators to look into it. and that that we don t know. but i assume it s a pretty vast one. captain, thank you very much for joining us. my pleasure. and donald trump and dr. ben carson still stomping all over the other g.o.p. candidates in the polls. but they better check their rear view mirrors. one of the other candidates in the g.o.p. is surging. and coming up on them fast. the brand new numbers next. phil!
associated press isñlqdijju reporting out of london and we are trying to confirm that independently that there are intercepts. these are communications between known terrorist operatives, which would speak to premeditation it and foreknowledge of a divisive being planted on that aircraft. and this is the piece of evidence that really brings us into the bomb, isis scenario. all right. were these intercepts in our possession or somebody s possession before the bomb went off or after? and i realize i m not trying to blame if it s in possession before. i don t want to give you bad information. but what typically happens in these situations is that they use kind of a way back machine to look at the collection in light of events. you can t be reading everything in realtime but what i would add to the intercept piece is that two very senior isis social media accounts. these are accounts with a lot of credibility, that are followed by the intelligence community, these are the ones that ar