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And isis are two different terrorist organizations. from what i understand, this is isis in egypt, sinai. >> i sissies claiming credit for this attack, not al-zawahiri or al qaeda. but at some point they are all militant islamists and its possible the call to action could have resultsth this. but it could have been in the work for some time in terms of plotting. the question is how did an explosive device get on this airplane in term of air yaig security or was this an inside job of somebody who...

Colonel. we are hearing the same language from the american officials and u.k. officials and source in the middle east. what do you think we know how solid this intelligence is? >> christine, i would say this is pretty solid. you have two nations coming together and saying specifically there was something that happened at the airport which facilitated the movement of a potential explosive device to the aircraft. this metrojet airliner was subject to the same security to airlines at sharm el shei...

The latest intelligence suggests a bomb planted by isis or an isis affiliate brought down that russian passenger jet in egypt killing all 224 people onboard. our cnn international correspondent phil black is over at number 10 downing street in london. phil, british officials i take it theyve reached a similar conclusion? >> reporter: thats right, wolf. earlier today the british government announced that they were concerned that an explosive device may have brought down this aircraft. what weve s...

Was behind it used what theyre calling a conventional explosive device and took advantage of lax security at the airport or perhaps there was someone on the inside. lets go quickly now to the u.s. state department. our correspondent elise labbot has been grilling the spokesperson there, john kirby. heres that exchange. >> reporter: so you said that this is a very routine procedure that would prevent employees traveling into an area where there was a plane crash. but youre cautioning everybody no...

Brothers? are we just going to say, oh, its another tragedy and move on to the next one? thats unacceptable right now from anybody, the government or the community. >> father michael flager, thank you for your voice, an important one. >> thank you. coming up next, more breaking news today. the uk now saying its very possible that a bomb took down that russian passenger jet. and now two countries are suspending flights from the region where it crashed. stand by. major news unfolding on this wed...

Country that is investigating the accident to publish the information, that being egypt. they say that it is up to them to complete their investigation and up to them to publish the information. but it goes on to say it is against the law for any other state to publish that information without the express permission in this case of the egyptian government. in this way, it gives the russian authorities a caveat here, if they were aware of this information about a bomb being placed aboard and it s...

Experience at handling this sort of information. but what the british have done in the last couple of hours, to use a soccer analogy, theyve blown the whistle. theyve actually blown the whistle and said for the first time, whoa, now weve really got to think about a bomb. >> its gruesome to think about, but think about what the investigators are having to look through and comb through with regard to the debris and bodies. richard quest, thank you so much. nic robertson for us as well. thank you. ...

Several governments that it most likely was a bomb that brought down that british airliner. pardon me, russian airliner. killing 224 people. >> this is huge. this is incredibly significant. if you are just now joining us, barbara, stay with me, i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world here. barbara starr, our pentagon correspondent, has just been reporting on the russian passenger jet weve been covering the crash, now learning that the jet crash was likely...

Maintenance but with this kind of explosive device, even a smaller one, the plane is done. >> and it doesnt have to be a sophisticated bomb to smuggle a device like this on board, whether through a caterer or through cargo and it has an alarm clock or digital watch that could trigger . not at all. it doesnt have to be sophisticated. not even as sophisticated as the pan am baggers. >> pam am 103. >> pan am 103. this could have been placed 15 minutes before they took off. >> were not checking al...

Government here until an assessment is carried out on the ground in sharm el sheikh and the british government says it has its own people on the ground there now at that airport trying to determine whether or not it is safe for those planes to fly. because what theyre concerned about is, if a bomb, explosive device, did bring this aircraft down, then somehow that bomb got onto that plane. what they want to be very sure about is that could not possibly happen again, brooke. >> phil black, thank y...