isisf-affiliated group, why would they go after a russian airline where most of the passenger passengers were russian. why target russia? was the attack designed to hurt russia or egypt for xexample or send a broader message if the design was to hurt egypt i think more so than russians, but this is one of the areas where isis s information campaigns are significant. and nobody is talking about how isis is killing the innocent people. they are beating their chest on social media saying that they are taking the fight to the bad guys, but they are kill iing th innocent folk, and that message has to get out there to folks t trying to combat them. you spent nine years in the cia as a clandestine officer. you understand the intelligence and the whole social media, and these guys are e kruting isis and a lot more supporters now as a reare sult of the murder of 224 people which is hard for us to understand. why is this so attractive to them? look. we can t think of the problem