Matthew matthew . Reporter chris, thanks very much. This is the first time that its been confirmed that it was a bomb that took down that metrojet airliner at the end of last month, killing all 224 people on the Sinai Peninsula. The head of the russian fsb, the former kgb telling Vladimir Putin on state television that a search of the luggage and fragments of the plane thats been recovered has found traces of foreignmade explosives. They believe it was a bomb on board, a terrorist act, a bomb with at least a kilo of tnt or the equivalent contained inside it. That would account from the fact that the debris from the fuselage was spread across such a wide area this again, the first time its been confirmed that it was a bomb that caused the crash of that metrojet airliner in sinai at the end of last month. Vladimir putin was swift in his response speaking on state television saying of the culprits we will search for them everywhere no matter where theyre hiding well find them in any place
An Italian aid worker described being beaten with a rubber cable and waterboarded in harrowing testimony Thursday at the trial of a jihadist accused of being one of his Islamic State captors known as the "Beatles."Federico Motka is the first former IS hostage to testify at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a former British national accused of the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.
An Italian aid worker described being beaten with a rubber cable and waterboarded in harrowing testimony Thursday at the trial of a jihadist accused of being one of his Islamic State captors known as…