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Intercepted ISIS chatter ‘boasted about Egypt crash’

Handout photo satellite image of the Russian airplane crash site on the Sinai Peninsula. (Reuters)

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 7 November 2015

Communications between ISIS leaders in Raqqa, Syria, and persons in the Sinai Peninsula included boasts about the downing of a Russian passenger jet over the area, NBC reported on Friday, citing unidentified U.S. officials.

“They were clearly celebrating,” NBC Nightly News quoted a U.S. official as saying. The “chatter” included a boast of taking down the plane on Saturday and how it was done.

 U.S. intelligence community Intercepted a Message from a Sinai group affiliated with ISIS that warned of “something big in the area” before the jet crash.