Chinanews.com, February 9th (Xinhua) Comprehensive foreign media reports on the 9th, regarding the truth about the explosion of the "Beixi" pipeline, Seymour Hersh, a well-known American investigative reporter, recently threw out a heavy news, accusing the US military of Fang participated in the implementation of the incident and accused US President Biden of approving the operation.

Image source: New York Post report screenshot

Biden "green light" the bombing?

　　According to the US "Newsweek" report, Hersh published an article on the website Substack entitled "How the United States Destroyed the "North Stream" Pipeline" and described in detail the "North Stream" pipeline that occurred in September 2022 Explosion event.

　　According to reports, Hersh is an investigative reporter who was famous for exposing the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by the US military more than 50 years ago.

He also disclosed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison by the US military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Image source: Screenshot of the US "Newsweek" report

　　Hersh, 85, quoted anonymous sources in the article as saying that "skilled deep-water divers" from the U.S. Navy planted C-4 explosives that could be remotely triggered during a training exercise in June 2022, and that they were delivered by Norway in September of the same year. Navy planes dropped sonobuoys that detonated explosives that damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipelines.

　　The source said that the US Navy carried out the explosive laying operation under the cover of the NATO maritime exercise "BALTOPS 22".

　　Hersh also pointed out that after nine months of consultations on the plan by the U.S. national security agencies, Biden ordered professional U.S. Navy divers to sabotage the oil pipeline.

Hersh also wrote that in Biden's view, the natural gas pipeline is a tool used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to "weaponize natural gas to achieve political ambitions."

　　The article quoted sources as saying that when the relevant departments of the United States were discussing how to destroy the "North Stream" pipeline, "all relevant personnel understood the risks involved" and "the CIA advocated that no matter what they did, they needed to be concealed."

If the attack could be traced to the United States, "it would be an act of war," the source said.

Data map: The "Beixi" natural gas pipeline leaked.

Russian Foreign Ministry: Western countries prevent Moscow from participating in investigation

　　In this regard, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova commented that the Russian Foreign Ministry called on the United States to respond to the investigation into the sabotage of the "Beixi" pipeline.

　　Zakharova emphasized: "We have repeatedly expressed Russia's position on the involvement of the United States and NATO in this matter, noting that they brag unceremoniously to the world that they intend to destroy the civilian infrastructure of Europe, which is precisely Access to Russian energy through this facility.”

　　Zakharova also said that Western countries prevented Moscow from participating in the investigation.

“We have also often noted the reluctance of Denmark, Germany and Sweden to conduct public investigations and object to Russian involvement in the investigation, despite our country’s enormous investment in it. It is time for the White House to comment on all of these facts.”

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Zakharova.

Image source: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

　　However, in a brief statement, a Pentagon spokesman said that "the United States had nothing to do with the Nord Stream explosion," reiterating the U.S. Department of Defense's October 2022 response to the same issue.

A CIA spokesman also called Hersh's report "completely false."

　　On September 26, 2022, the important natural gas transportation pipelines "Beixi-1" and "Beixi-2" connecting Russia and Europe suffered gas leaks and underwater explosions one after another.

After the incident, Denmark and Sweden conducted investigations on the scene and said that the pipeline was suspected of "deliberate sabotage".

　　On October 31, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Gazprom was allowed to inspect the "Beixi" explosion site, and the company's president Miller reported the investigation to him.

Putin also stated that the explosion of the "North Stream" natural gas pipeline was obviously a "terrorist attack."

　　What is the truth about this incident?

I believe that history will eventually tell people the answer.