About 8 days back a Russian airliner broke up in midair over the Sinai in Egypt killing all 224 people on board, including around 25 children. At first it was thought that it was a catastrophic mechanical failure but then the US said that a military satellite had picked up a heat flash in the same area just before the crash. Investigators have found a 'noise' at the last second of recording on the flight recorders which confirms that there was a bomb on board. US officials are sure of a bomb because they have picked up chatter among ISIS fighters, boasting to their bosses about bringing down an airplane. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi is visiting Britain and talks are a little frosty because Britain was the first to suspend all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh. Since Egypt is dependent on tourism its economy will take a huge hit. While sympathising with Russia on their loss we Indians lost much more in the betrayal at Sharm el-Sheikh in July 2009. At first there seemed a sense of gloating on British news channels as they implied that Putin deserved a bloody nose for his bombing of terrorists in Syria, just as there was during the siege at School No 1 at Beslan, where 334 people including 186 children were slaughtered by Islamist terrorists in 2004. Now the reporting has become a little restrained, maybe because it has dawned on them that it could have happened to any airline and that the terrorists are probably coming from Libya, which is in chaos, for which the British Prime Minister, David Cameron is solely responsible, having been instrumental in the NATO bombing of Gaddafi to death. Just as Tony Blair was responsible for supporting the stupid attack on Iraq by George Bush. The UN is attempting to end the civil war in Libya but cannot get the different factions and tribes to agree on a ceasefire, let alone peace. Even now Cameron is talking about bombing Libya again to stop terrorist attacks on Britain. Not content with killing 30,000 Libyans in indiscriminate bombing Cameron wants to kill even more. He would certainly rise to the top if he joined ISIS. Western countries were selectively bombing ISIS targets while helping other terrorist groups with arms and money so as to bring down Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Just as they distinguish between bad Taliban, who kill NATO forces, and good Taliban, who do not, even if they arrange terrorist attacks in India. Russia is bombing all terrorists including those fighting Assad. Now the Afghan government has requested Russia for helicopter gunships to fight the Taliban. Meanwhile migrants from African countries are using the power vacuum in Libya to cross over to Lampedusa, which belongs to Italy, while those from Syria are going through Turkey to Greece. Who knows how many terrorists are also crossing over with them? Europe will surely get involved in the war in the middle east. When, we shall see.
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