US officials say ISIS leaders can be heard boasting about Egypt plane crash: NBC
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The wreckage of a Russian airliner at a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Nov 1, 2015.
PHOTO: AFP
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Communications between Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (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 (Nov 6), citing unidentified United States officials.
"They were clearly celebrating," NBC Nightly News quoted a US official as saying.
The "chatter" included a boast of taking down the plane on Saturday and how it was done.
The US intelligence community intercepted a message from a Sinai group affiliated with ISIS that warned of "something big in the area" before the jet crash.
