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>> nic robertson, appreciate it. cnn safety analyst david soucie joins us now. able miles obrien and former ntsb member john golia, john, if this was indeed a bomb on a commercial airliner does this mean a total reassessment of airport security not just in egypt but globally? >> of course it will. well look at our issues and there was just a report out in the last few days of problems with our own assessments at airports. so its going to cause a total review both in the united states and around ...

El-sheikh airport. do we know more details on that? >> according to the british government, they have gone there and reported back. their assessment is security has been stepped up but in the words of the government here, there is still more work to do. so the government here having made the extraordinary step of sending in their own advisers to an airport in another country are now saying that that country isnt quite up to the job just yet but they will work together closely so that hopefully t...

The airplane. >> reporter: whoever built that bomb likely thought it would pass through an x-ray machine with the petn disguised as printer toner powder. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> want to dig deeper on this with our terrorism analyst and paul chook -- cruickshank. paul, i mean, weve talked a lot about groups and saw it there trying to use sophisticated methods, the ink jet cartridge. they say thats a relatively easy thing to make. and a relatively crude device. >> a very conventional device,...

After lieutenant gliniewicz died and now cnn has learned that at least one of those organizes who gave the widow $15,000 is asking for their money back. as for the family, we reached out and from their family attorney weve heard that the family is asking for privacy. >> all right. rosa flores, appreciate it. thanks very much. this is the kind of plot twist usually seen in movies. its fair to say the community of fox lake did not see this coming. what about lieutenant gliniewicz brothers and sist...

They had been watching sinai for some time, watching militant activity growing there. the feeling they have now is that it is isis or an isis affiliate most likely behind it if indeed it proves to be a bomb on board the airplane and of course, this will change the worlds calculation about what isis is capable of doing. >> so how are u.s. authorities saying they got this information? and did they have intelligence about a specific threat prior to the crash? >> right, okay. u.s. officials are tell...

They were saying that they did not take the decision to increase security at the time. they said that they were also not questioning employees at the airport because they said that they had no indication that the plane came down as a result of terrorism. now, we heard today from the egyptian foreign minister, tell cnn that they are going to be heightening security not just at sharm el-sheikh international airport but at airports across egypt and not because of any conclusions out of the investig...