Officials Won’t Rule Out ISIS Involvement in Russian Plane Crash

U.S. officials refused to rule out that ISIS was responsible for bringing down the Metrojet flight in Egypt this weekend, citing a tweet from the terror group that claimed responsibility for the deadly crash.

 

“It’s unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out,” U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper said when asked whether ISIS had the ability to shoot down an airliner. “We don’t have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement, yet,” Clapper said at the Defense One Summit in Washington, D.C.”

 

Clapper said the group, which the government refers to as ISIL, claimed responsibility for the crash in tweet.

 

“There is a very aggressive ISIL chapter in the Sinai,” he said. “But we really don’t know and I think once the black boxes have been analyzed … then perhaps we’ll know more.”

 

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