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🗓️ 27 September 2023
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In the early morning hours of September 26, 2022, in the deep abyss of the Baltic Sea, an international mystery of substantial consequence began to unfold when a bomb ruptured the Russian-dominated Nord Stream pipeline. It was the opening salvo in a four-pronged attack that day that would leave three of the four pipelines incapacitated. One year later, no suspects have been arrested and no sponsor — nation state or otherwise — has been formally accused of responsibility.
This week on Intercepted, we present a special documentary, "The Hunt for the Nord Stream Bombers." We hear from Holger Stark, an investigative journalist from Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper who has broken several major stories on the bombing, as well as retired Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who organized a groundbreaking independent expedition to film all four of the blast sites. Jeremy Scahill takes us through what we know and what we don’t about the bombing and examines the top suspects and the mounting evidence suggesting Ukrainian involvement in the attacks.
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0:30.0 | It's two hours past midnight, on September 26, 2022, |
0:38.7 | and all is quiet on the Baltic Sea. |
0:41.6 | There are gusts of wind moving northeast |
0:43.6 | from the Danish island of Bornholm. |
0:46.4 | At 2.03 a.m., some 80 meters below the sea, |
0:49.7 | an explosion pierces a section of Nordstream 2, |
0:53.4 | an underwater pipeline intended to deliver gas |
0:56.1 | from Russia to Germany. |
0:58.9 | Size-mologist registered a blast of roughly two on the Richter scale. |
1:03.5 | Danish warplanes assessing the situation |
1:05.8 | view a bubbling pool emerging from the sea. |
1:10.0 | It was the opening salvo in what would be a four-pronged attack |
1:13.8 | against one of the largest international infrastructure projects |
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