Topic: Egypt refuses to concede that terrorists caused Sinai plane crash (Read 686 times)

Reinforcing your airport security is not the same as steeping up efforts against terrorists.
Egypt would anyway realize that ISIS would want to expand its caliphate to all places with a sizable muslim population, including Egypt.

Maybe egypt just don't want to get involved because they can't deal with how easily terrorists could wreck their country even more if they decided to step up their efforts against terrorists.

Instead of strengthening its airport security systems, Egypt is trying to protect its reputation.
If Egypt had accepted responsibility and laid out the steps it is taking to improve the situation, tourists will find it easier to trust the government. Now they are fooling nobody but themselves.

How is your attitude different than ISIS?

im just say again....  USE ATOM BOMBS RUSSIA PLEASE!

Hi

Egypt is just trying to save its economy and especially its tourism industry. They seem too be very weak and the society seems quite unstable after mubarak was ousted
 
Bye

In the past 6-7 months, tourists from Russia, Mexico, and a number of other countries have lost their lives in Egypt. The security forces have completely failed in providing adequate security for the visiting foreign nationals. IMO, the United Nations should declare Egypt as a no-go Zone for foreign tourists and other non-Egyptian visitors.

Foreign minister also criticises failure to share intelligence on crash as restrictions threaten to cripple tourism industry

The Egyptian government has refused to concede that terrorists brought down a Russian passenger jet in the Sinai desert last week, despite the US and the UK saying that intelligence points strongly to the crash being caused by a bomb.

Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, pushed back against international suspicions that the tragedy was an act of terrorism, as intensifying restrictions on air travel threatened to cripple the country’s vital tourism industry.

“We have not dismissed any possibility but there is no hypothesis yet, before the investigations are over and a full report is ready,” Shoukry said on Saturday.

His comments came after several countries decided to block flights to the popular Red Sea resort.

Shoukry said foreign intelligence that had triggered the international travel restrictions had not been shared with Egypt. “We expected that any technical information should have been shared with us, at a technical level, before publicising it in the media,” he said.

Security officials said, however, that they had launched an investigation into local staff and ground crew in Sharm el-Sheikh who had come into contact with the MetroJet Airbus A321 before it crashed 23 minutes after takeoff, killing all 224 people on board.

Egyptian authorities are checking cameras at the resort’s airport for any suspicious activity related to the crash, security officials told Reuters

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/egypt-plane-crash-intelligence-has-not-been-shared-with-us-cairo-says