The Vice Chair of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said on Meet the Press that it is a “strong probability” that a bomb took down Metrojet Flight 9268 after it took off from Egypt in route to Russia over the Sinai Peninsula on October 31st.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein also said she hoped this incident is a “wake-up call to Putin” and the United States. “I think the time has come for us also to begin to develop a joint strategy with Russia,” she said.
She also expressed some frustration that perhaps the United States has not been sharing information about terrorist attacks with other countries.
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See Photos From the Russian Plane Crash and Its Aftermath
An Egyptian soldier stands guard as emergency workers unload bodies of victims from the crash of a Russian aircraft over the Sinai peninsula from a police helicopter to ambulances at the military airport in Kabrit, Egypt, on Oct. 31, 2015
Amr Nabil—AP
Debris from crashed Russian jet lies strewn across the sand at the site of the crash in the Sinai region in Egypt on Oct. 31, 2015.
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Wreckage at the site where a Russian aircraft crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula near El Arish city, on Nov. 1, 2015.
Maxim Grigoryev—ITAR-TASS/Corbis
Ambulances transporting the bodies of the victims of the Russian passenger flight crash arrive at the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo on Oct. 31, 2015.
Mohammed Hossam—EPA
People arrange candles to make a cross to commemorate 224 victims of a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt, on the stairs of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on Nov. 1, 2015.
Maxim Shemetov—Reuters
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