A US investigative journalist has mentioned the US bombed Nord Stream underwater fuel pipelines within the Baltic Sea. A collection of underwater explosions struck Nord Stream 1 and a couple of pipelines in September 2022.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 9, 2023 12:24 IST
Picture launched on September 27 by the Danish Defense Command reveals fuel leak on the Nord Stream 2 fuel pipeline (AFP)
By India Today Web Desk: The White House ordered the bombing of the Nord Stream underwater fuel pipelines within the Baltic Sea in September 2022 on a secret mission, claimed a US investigative journalist.
According to Seymour Hersh, this was carried out by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) from Norway and deep-sea divers within the United States planted mines alongside the pipelines that have been remotely detonated.
Hersh mentioned that the planning relating to the bombing of pipelines began in December 2021, when the contributors debated choices for an assault.
The journalist, additionally a Pulitzer Prize winner, in his weblog submit, claimed the plan was carried out after President Joe Biden held discussions with senior officers coping with nationwide safety.
The explosive units have been planted beneath Russia’s Nord Stream 2 fuel pipeline in June 2022. Three months later, in September, the explosives destroyed three of the 4 Nord Stream pipelines.
The US Navy proposed utilizing a submarine to assault the pipeline, whereas the Air Force mentioned dropping bombs with delayed fuses that might be set off remotely. However, the CIA mentioned that no matter must be finished must be covert, with out leaving proof, Hersh mentioned, citing an unnamed supply conversant in the planning.
He additional added that an American submarine base in Norway was chosen because the “perfect place to base the mission.”
Meanwhile, the White House has dismissed Hersh’s claims and termed them ‘completely false and full fiction’. The identical was echoed by a spokesperson for the CIA.
NORD STREAM PIPELINES
A collection of undersea explosions within the Baltic ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and a couple of pipelines in September final yr.
The undersea Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches 1,200km (745 miles) below the Baltic Sea from the Russian coast close to St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany.
It opened in 2011 and might ship a most of 170m cubic meters of fuel per day from Russia to Germany.
The pipeline is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is the Russian state-owned firm Gazprom.
Gazprom can also be behind the constructing of a parallel fuel pipeline, Nord Stream 2, which was because of come on stream this yr.
In September 2022, Norway and Denmark reported 4 leaks in each the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines within the Baltic Sea, close to the island of Bornholm.
Seismologists mentioned they detected explosions below the ocean in the identical space.
The pipelines have been full of fuel on the time, regardless that the fuel was not flowing by means of them.
Huge fuel bubbles rose to the floor of the ocean, the biggest being 1 km in diameter.
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Feb 9, 2023
