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Sheikh airport. erica? >> ayman mohyeldin for us in cairo tonight, thank you. i want to bring in now don umbrel berelli, an msnbc contributor. nice to see you tonight. if we look at this and step back for a minute. so we have paris, we have these new developments on the russian plane, we have the bombings in beirut. we have the situation now in germany, tonight. that is so spread out. how do you effectively mount a strategy to deal with all of this? >> it is a very difficult situation. there's so many moving parts right now and they're moving very rapidly, as you said. you've got german, you'v...

We accepted immediately. that team can have whatever it needs to understand full investigation and to be part of the investigative team. >> because i know that there are -- there's an impressive fbi delegation that's permanently based at the u.s. embassy in cairo. will you allow fbi agents to go to sinai and investigate, take a look at the area themselves? >> well, this is related to the international regulations that govern the investigation, allow advisers to the investigative team, that would be a decision on the part of the u.s. to create its own team and include the fbi, if that is possib...

Could have been an explosion that was triggered by several things. a metal break-up of the plane, a fuel explosion, even suggesting that it may have been batteries that were stored inside the cargo of that plane. another important development that has happened in terms of that investigation, the closed-circuit television footage of the airport has been analyzed by egyptian security officials. they say there was no suspicious behavior while the plane was on the tarmac, there was no suspicion behavior of any personnel approaching the plane while was in sharm el sheikh airport. so as far as the i...

Security agencies an all kinds of tactics. in the past, we have seen u.s. trainers and military personnel in countries like afghanistan the subject of insider attacks. but this is really a rare situation the see in a country like jordan where there's a close working relationship between the united states and squl jordanian security personnel. nonetheless as we mentioned at this stage the investigation into the background of this individual is ongoing. though relatives, again, from this individual's family, tell nbc news in jordan they do not believe it to be a terrorist attack as of yet. kate?...

Sharm el sheikh airport. >> reporter: that happened on the 23rd of august. it was a thompson airways plane coming from standstead in the u.k. as it approached sharm el sheikh national airport, the co-pilot saw what looked like a projectile heading in the direction of the airplane. he took evatisive action. nothing happened. the british ministry conducted an investigation to the incident. it said it appears it was not a targeted attack but was connected to routine exercises by the egyptian military in the area. this incident which really does raise a lot of questions -- what on earth are milita...