Russian plane crashes in Egypt

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/31/russian-passenger-plane-crashes-in-egypt/

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IDF planes and drones helped locate crashed Russian airliner

DEBKAfile October 31, 2015, 12:37 PM (IDT)

Israeli Air Force reconnaissance planes and drones assisted in the location of the crashed Russian airliner in central Sinai Saturday morning. The plane took off from Sharm El-Sheikh for St. Petersburg with 224 Russian passengers and crew aboard. President Putin has conveyed his condolences to their families.

http://www.debka.com/newsupdate/13437/IDF-planes-and-drones-helped-locate-crashed-Russian-airliner?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297871/Russian-passenger-plane-220-tourists-board-missing-Egypt-Fears-aircraft-crashed-Sinai-desert.html

ISIS claims responsibility for Russian jet crash: Victims 'found over three-mile radius' after plane with 224 on board crashes in Egypt leaving no survivors - but officials blame 'technical fault'

• The aircraft was reported missing 23 minutes after leaving the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with 224 on board
• The doomed jet was owned by an Irish company and leased to a Russian airline carrying tourists to St Petersburg
• Egyptian air crash investigators said the pilot had warned of a 'technical problem' shortly before the disaster
• The jet was plunging at more than 6,000 feet per minute as the pilot tried to land at el-Arish airport in northern Egypt

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297871/Russian-passenger-plane-220-tourists-board-missing-Egypt-Fears-aircraft-crashed-Sinai-desert.html#ixzz3qAMEzwkW
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Other airlines are not flying over that region until they can verify that the plane was not shot down.

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Al-Qaeda snatched missiles in Libya: Chad President

Friday, 25 March 2011

Al-Qaeda's offshoot in North Africa has snatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there, Chad's president said in an interview to be published Monday.

Idriss Deby Itno did not say how many were stolen, but told the African weekly Jeune Afrique that he was "100 percent sure" of his assertion.

"The Islamists of al-Qaeda took advantage of the pillaging of arsenals in the rebel zone to acquire arms, including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries in Tenere," a desert region of the Sahara that stretches from northeast Niger to western Chad, Deby said in the interview.

Chad President Idriss Deby Itno

Chad President Idriss Deby Itno

"This is very serious. AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) is becoming a genuine army, the best equipped in the region," he said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Chad's president backed the assertion by his neighbor and erstwhile enemy Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that the protests in Libya have been driven in part by al-Qaeda.

"There is a partial truth in what he says," Deby said. "Up to what point? I don't know. But I am certain that AQIM took an active part in the uprising."

After years of tension between the two nations, which were at war during part of the 1980s, Deby has more recently maintained good relations with Gaddafi.

The Chadian leader described the international military intervention in Libya, launched a week ago by the United States, France and Britain, as a "hasty decision."

"It could have heavy consequences for the stability of the region and the spread of terrorism in Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of Africa," he cautioned.

Deby denied assertions that mercenaries had been recruited in Chad to fight for Gaddafi, though some of the several thousand Chad nationals in Libya may have joined the fight "on their own."

AQIM originated as an armed Islamist resistance movement to the secular Algerian government.

Today, it operates mainly in Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Niger, where it has attacked military targets and taken civilian hostages.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/25/143013.html