CHICAGO (WLS) -- ISIS terrorists claim a bomb hidden in a can of pineapple soda was used to blow up a Russian passenger jet last month.
A photograph purporting to show the tiny, crude bomb and the Egyptian-produced drink can was just published in a special edition of ISIS' propaganda magazine "Dabiq."
Previous intercepted devices have used Semtex, a commercial plastic explosive, but most current airport security is capable of detecting that plastique. A U.S. intelligence official says that the soda can bomb would be powerful enough to bring down a jetliner, CNN reported on Wednesday afternoon.
The startlingly simple bomb claim comes one day after Russia acknowledged the passenger jet was downed by a terrorist bomb over the Sinai desert. 224 passengers and crew on the plane were killed when it exploded mid-air and crashed. The incident triggered Russia's stepped-up military presence in the region and has complicated an already delicate situation for the U.S. and its allies.
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The Paris attack, that resulted in a gun and bomb slaughter of more than 125 people, was carried out by "brave knights" the wrap-up article proclaims. They were deployed by ISIS leaders to "wage war in the homeland of the wicked crusaders."
The back-to-back attacks on the jet and on targets in Paris "was to show the Russians and whoever allies with them that they will have no safety in the lands and airspace of the Muslims."