similarly, british employee at heathrow was passing information about the security environment there to a self-described al qaeda member. and that s just looking at united states and britain. i don t have haven t had the time to look at other countries in the west. but you know, it not just the situation in the united states. i think obviously tsa in many ways is has a pretty good handle on the problems here. and we do have a good security situation in the united states. the bigger problem is what has been revealed if this was a bomb in sharm el sheikh, which is what is the security situation in airports where there are flights coming into the west or the news. right. what about the go ahead. go ahead, peter. well i mean, i think the big luckily on friday the department of homeland security announced new measure for cairo, amman, kuwait. we don t know what measures are precisely but we can take it i think it s quite likely that the egyptians don t have a very good han
cairo airport or sharm el sheikh i any of their airports and i m not trying to single out egyptians. i think it s true of other countries. the biggest problem is inbound flights to the united states, west from countries that don t have the same double security as we have. and add to that that we have some of our own problems if you take the inspector general s report six months ago, 73 people who might have ties to terrorism being employed at airports. what we do know is that al qaeda has been working very hard on creating an undeductible bomb, we know that. with your expertise in this area, could isis have that technology? if so, could this be a result of that? something undetectable getting on to that plane? i mean, it s not impossible. certainly al qaeda in yemen has been klees aing with al qaeda in syria to give them some of the bomb making techniques. of course isis and al qaeda in syria are locked in mortal combat now. but the groups have had people
the russian plane in sinai. one senior obama official telling cnn certainty is, quote, 99.9%, another official saying it is quote likely. we are learning that sole some intelligence used to make that determination came from israel. u.s. official briefed on the intelligence and a diplomatic source say communications captured by israeli intelligence passed along to the united states and britain. egyptian officials say news reports claiming lax security and nonfunctioning equipment at sharm el sheikh airport are, quote, generalizations unsubstantiated and false. today the associated press cites up to seven officials involved in security, each describing poor security procedures there with me live, from sharm el sheikh, nima. talking first about the significance, why is it significant that some of the intelligence has come from israel to the united states? reporter: given that the
at sharm el sheikh airport now for a few days. what have you witnessed in terms of security and any concerns that people should have there or is this as egyptian officials are saying hype over something that s not a reality? reporter: well, sharm el sheikh, it s a tiny tourist airport. it has never given you the sense, when i ve been here in the past, of being smoothly running locked down zone, famously a few months ago, a mentally disabled man managed to enter the perimeter of the airport along the runway and walk amongst planes before tackled down by police. so there have been concerns in the past about this airport. but egyptian officials are saying now that they believe that the security doesn t need to be changed, that even though there s a broader security presence on the runway and they ve closed off as a militarized zone and pushed us further back from it, they re doing all of this to appease the
going back and forth between them. in was a bomb in sharm el sheikh it wasn t one of the impossible to detect bombs that got on the plane. i don t think i think the work assumption it was a fairly conventional-type bomb that was put on in the hold and you don t really need something that would defeat, you know, a high level of airport security. underwear bomber who tried to bring northwest flight 253 down over detroit did have a bomb, he did get through security in amsterdam and that s a tough airport to get through. so you know, i don t think it for sharm el sheikh, for the attack on metrojet airliner, it s not necessary it was one of the ultrasophisticated bombs completely impossible to detect. or that might have been. just to think they re working on that and potentially getting close is a terrifying thought. thank you so much. thank you. straight ahead, deep anger on the campus of the university of missouri after a series of