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Title: Bigger news, Russian passenger jet crash
Post by: Baruch on October 31, 2015, 02:03:20 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/middleeast/egypt-plane-crash/index.html

Though ISIS claims to have downed it.  If so, then this is very serious.
Title: Re: Bigger news, Russian passenger jet crash
Post by: Hydra009 on October 31, 2015, 02:13:06 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 31, 2015, 02:03:20 PMThough ISIS claims to have downed it.  If so, then this is very serious.
ISIS claims a lot of things.  Also, I'm sure they'd love to be seen as a substantive threat to Russia, given the recent Russian airstrikes.

However, the experts say that it was most likely a technical problem, so that's what I'm going with unless new information points towards an attack.
Title: Re: Bigger news, Russian passenger jet crash
Post by: Baruch on October 31, 2015, 02:45:39 PM
On the other hand, there could have been a bomb on board ... rather than a manpad being used at that high an altitude.

In any case, like the passenger plane destroyed over Ukraine, we will probably never know.
Title: Re: Bigger news, Russian passenger jet crash
Post by: Hydra009 on October 31, 2015, 02:57:43 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 31, 2015, 02:45:39 PMIn any case, like the passenger plane destroyed over Ukraine, we will probably never know.
That one actually is pretty well understood, though apparently not by everybody.
Title: Re: Bigger news, Russian passenger jet crash
Post by: Baruch on October 31, 2015, 04:11:28 PM
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 31, 2015, 02:57:43 PM
That one actually is pretty well understood, though apparently not by everybody.

So who did it?  Ideology can choose a side, but it doesn't decide the truth.  Not that truth matters, peace and war are decided by falsehood, not by truth ... which is to say, by public opinion and elite machination.