By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on
November 3, 2015
A source with Russian intelligence just confirmed that the
Russian government will not announce its preliminary findings on the A321 crash
in Sinai.
However, their intelligence solidly names Saudi Arabia as
responsible for the bombing which killed 244. Egyptian intelligence was
fully complicit in the terror attack. The sources stated: “Half the
Egyptians work for Israel, the other half for Saudi Arabia anyway, Egypt has no
security services, only paid foreign spies.”
Sources in Moscow say there no doubts whatsoever.
Would the Saudis attempt something like this in Israel’s
backyard without involving them somehow? What do you think? Would they do it without
the US knowing, when we have guaranteed to protect their security? Inquiring
minds would like do know.
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Below
is our second story on the Russian plane crash, complied soon after the
possible bomb on board reports started coming in, and the early Egyptian
reports were putting out false information, which is never done casually in an
event like this. ..JD
A developing story: The morning
news brought a growing consensus for a bomb having caused the plane to break up
in the air. This was not based on potential evidence at the crash scene,
but by elimination of the other possibilities.
Was the downing of the Russian passenger plane done to push
Putin into making a mistake, perhaps scuttling the Vienna deal and the Minsk
accords and, perhaps even the Iran nuclear deal as well?
If Putin reacts to this outrage, seemingly perpetrated by US
allies operating under protection of NATO, what can Obama do if Putin decides
to push back hard?
The choices are simple, Russia turns the other cheek, Russia
hits back openly or surreptitiously or this takes the world to DEFCON 1 in a
flash.
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Egypt’s
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail (C) and Egypt’s Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi (2nd
L) arrive at the crash scene
The only real evidence involves impossible errors, the
initial story of radio calls never made, emergency landings planned for in an
imaginary world, confirmed by Al Jazeera with Egyptian officials that never
existed.
Then
there is the video of the “ISIS shoot down,” easily debunked as a “shoot down”
video but an extremely telling piece of evidence.
Team
leader Jim Dean was quick to point out that the video of a plane flying
up to 500 miles per hour is hard enough without timing the plane being overhead
at the exact moment of a catastrophic mishap. This is where issues of
“structural failure” are quickly dismissed.
Additionally,
larger missiles like the BUK, which we are told that Kiev is furnishing to
ISIS, leave a contrail that can be seen for hours from a hundred miles away in
the clear skies of Sinai or Ukraine. There was no such contrail, no
visible signs of a missile attack.
Wreckage
evidence under cursory examination has to be set aside as there is a long
history of this kind of evidence being photoshopped as with 9/11 or doctored as
with the Dutch investigation of MH17.
This leaves a bomb planted at Sharm el Sheikh airport, one
that could be accurately predicted, not just based on time and altitude but
both and perhaps speed as well or even remotely activated through penetration
of one of the planes communications systems. This requires a high degree
of sophistication, setting off a bomb directly over a video crew.
The
key to our investigation was location of the video crew’s position.
It required backtracking from the crash site, following the suggested
descent time tied to the radar data supplied, based on speed, altitude and
deceleration algorithms.
This
is an example of how wide open the territory is at the video site, with no one
around
This
backtracked us approximately 24 miles to the only reachable location, an
abandoned Wadi with direct highway ties to well used infiltration routes to
Jordan, routes routinely used by Israeli and Saudi special operations
units working with terrorists in Sinai.
An
early airline bomb making kit – trial photo from the Heathrow plane attempts
Then again, we return to the issue of the
extreme sophistication of the bomb, it we are talking about a bomb, which is
more and more likely. Familiarity with advanced avionics are key, and
this cuts the list of potential players down to few, perhaps even one only.
From
here, we look at the issue of “team egress,” how those who planted the bomb,
again we note “if it was a bomb,” at the Sharm el Sheikh airport and the
additional team responsible for the video.
Both
groups would have to get out of Egypt quickly, which can only be done by
water. The reason for this is simple.
ISIS
receives half of its supplies through Turkey. The rest are brought
through Israel to Jordan, primarily through Aqaba, where barges take them on
the very short run, only a few miles, to the rail head inside Jordan which runs
them quickly to the Syrian and Iraqi borders and directly to ISIS units in the
field.
Thus,
the boats needed, the crews, the paid off customs officials, Jordan, Egypt,
plus the special operations teams, Israel or Saudi for instance, if those are
who can be considered, if a bomb is the real culprit here, make this all more
than possible but probable, highly probable.
Then we look to the story that Al Jazeera planted, which
held up Egypt closing her border crossings and ports looking for agents of
foreign security services who would have been otherwise sought. Al
Jazeera is controlled by the government of Qatar, very much a party to the
funding of ISIS and operations inside Syria against that nation and now Russia
as well.
Why? There were two big reasons. First is that to video the
plane blowing up required knowing when the bomb was going to
trigger and approximately where, to be in a position to get the video
shot. Gordon and I can tell you that is not something that a rump group of
jihadis could do, only a major intelligence agency (or several).
ISIL
video _moment of impact shows no missile plume
The video also eliminated a possible missile strike as there
was no plume. There would have to have been one as the missiles that go that
high have to carry a good bit of fuel to deliver 30 pounds of steel shrapnel
for a proximity fuse one like the BUK, large and impossible to sneak around in
the desert, even with a large sheet over it.
That
left only a bomb. So next was a quick update on security at the resort town,
which gets a log grade due to the huge number of foreign workers going in and
out on all the resort construction projects and the history of bribes to
circumvent any regulation imaginable. This included infiltrating a team in to
do something nasty, but where getting the out is still a trick.
So
that had us concentrating at looking how we would have gotten in to shoot the
video, if it is real. First up was the location which thanks to our
un-volunteered partner Google Earth we were able to find the approximate
position required to match up to the camera angles and the radar recordings of
where then plane was struck. Then came doing the math on the debris coming down
where it did.
We have that spot marked above as the probable location, and
just above it to the right the approximate position of the plane to fit the
radar reports and camera angle. There is still an anomaly on the cell phone
camera being faked as even at full zoom we do not see how an I- phone
could hold a plane at 31,000 feet in frame, being hand held. From my camera
experience with my $500 fluid head it would have taken some professional
equipment to record this, and then dumbed down to look like a cell phone
camera.
More
analysis will confirm, or not, hence we are not claiming “who done it”, just a
“most probable at” this point. If we were working for a government it would be
asking for an early assessment on the most likely suspect. We are sharing some
of the analysis behind what would typically be done, the logistics
analysis.
Next came looking for how a video team would have gotten and,
and then even harder, getting out. We first focused on the two Israel border
crossings to the East as they were closest and Israel is always a top suspect
in operations like this, especially where children are killed as they have a
lot track record for going it.
But
the low traffic between the two countries at these crossings is riskier for
being noticed, going in, and more so, going out. So although we did find roads
from the east that allowed access from Israel, we backed up and looked for
alternates. We then spotted the main east-west road from Aqaba, Jordan, with
lots of traffic where it is easy to blend in.
That
road was a good bit south of the crash so we next had to zoom quite a bit
to find a viable road going north…and found one, a lightly use one, straight as
an arrow through what appeared to be a few abandoned facilities, the perfect
set up to have put a team in the day before to be ready in the morning. We
are showing one of those below.
Wadi
Geryed, Sinia, pre-staging overnight position for a video team – one we
would have picked with some “view blocking” facilities
Aqaba is the city version of Rick’s Cafe from the movie
Casablanca, one of the most active espionage transit
centers in the Mideast. You have the huge CIA facility in Jordan, and the
Saudi one, too. And then Israel’s border border ends their, also.
The
ferry from Jordan was the most attractive route as it connects to the main
east-west highway with lots of traffic to blend into and where any customs
issues can be quickly resolved with a few hundred dollars.
The major Intel orgs
have fast lanes to get through these places when needed.
That completed our finding a very good way for a team to
have gotten in, but where getting out was still tricky as after an event like
this you can face road blocks and dragnets. So you have to have multiple exit
routes, and more importantly, some time to exit the area before a major
security alert goes out. The Aqaba exit would have been the quickest and
the best, to be out of the country ASAP.
The
map below shows that route in more detail so you can see how closely all three
countries are at that point, Jordan to the right, Israel’s Elat north, and
Egypt on the left where the main highway is from their port.
Aqaba,
Jordan crossing point by ferry
The last big clue we had was the confusion with the
early report of the pilot reporting “technical difficulties” and requesting to
land in Cairo, not a big deal initially in terms of what was to
come.. That communication was widely published and ran all day while the
focus was on getting to the plane wreckage. When the video
alleged to have been from ISIL popped up it was generally thought to be bogus
because we knew they have nothing to shoot down a plane at that altitude. We
ran it anyway with qualifiers on it.
But
by late afternoon, the Egyptian officials “confirmed” that their had been NO
pilot communication or emergency signal sent. That meant the earlier report was
the the screw-up of all times, a firing squad offense…inconceivable to see how
such a mistake could be made.
But now we are viewing that as a cover story to give
an infiltration team the time needed to get out before a terrorism strike
report locked at the nearby borders, which would have included Aqaba. So next
the focus went over to tracking down who had planted the early bogus story of
the pilot communication.
Gordon’s quick search, about one minute, turned up
that Al Jazeera story first broke the story, from an unnamed Egyptian
official (totally pulled out of thin air) or, as is more than likely, was
manufactured on the need to create a temporary window allowing terrorist
cells or special operations squads to “get out of Dodge” undetected.
This
story was never meant to last and Al Jazeera obviously didn’t care that they
would be found either utterly incompetent or complicit. Those “in the
know” have long been aware that Al Jazeera is an intelligence agency front.
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There
was, as we now know, no Egyptian source. This was part of the cover up.
The
teams involved were tracked from Jordan by boat to Egypt and across land as
shown in the graphic above.
