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After EgyptAir Flight 804, an eerie silence from terrorist groups

Although parts of EgyptAir Flight 804 have been found, the cause of the fatal crash is still a mystery

PERHAPS CLARITY ON THE MAY 19 crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 will surface with the aircraft’s black box, which sensors have located on the Mediterranean Sea floor. But weeks after officials from Cairo to Washington speculated that the plane went down at terrorists’ hands, no terrorist group has taken responsibility.

That’s unsettling all by itself. ISIS and al-Qaeda tend to make their claims

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