Erik Strand, 03.06.2023
In the aftermath of Seymour Hersh’s story about the Nord Stream sabotage, another explanation has been offered by the mainstream media. Here is a comment on The New York Times’s coverage on the sabotage.
Here, I will comment on the state owned Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s (NrK) presentation of the case. I will thank the Norwegian alternative media Steigan.no for making me and others aware of the NrK’s coverage of the story.
On March 08. 2023, NrK let an “expert”, Hallvard Sandberg, explain the theory that a pro ukrainian group that is supposed to have carried out the sabotage. One can watch the NrK’s coverage of the case in this video (at 7:45 in the video).
In this news coverage of the Nord Steam terrorism, Hallvard Sandberg says the following:
“This group, which consists of five men and one woman – four divers, a doctor and a captain – shall then have dived 71-72 meters down, ant there is nothing mentioned about a diving bell or something, so this is most likely divers with diving bottles on their back and snorkels and masks that have dived down and placed explosives by the pipes. A dive, if you shall do something meaningful under sea, takes about one hour, so it is absolutely possible for people like this to do the job”.
When asked whether we can trust this information, hallvard Sandberg sais:
“We can trust that the heavy journalistic environments that present this, has got this information from reliable sources. But is this all? Have they gotten all information? Is it the correct picture that we get? We do not know that.”
A commentary at Steigan.no pictures Sandberg with a snorkel as a reward for his presentation and comments the NrK’s presentation as follows:
“The “heavy journalistic environment” that Sandberg spoke of is the editorial staff of the New York Times, which had not even bothered to do anything other than serve up a rumor that they claimed came from “intelligence sources”. No documentation, no background information that could give the story any credibility. Sandberg did his utmost to make people believe that ordinary diving equipment would be sufficient in what is characterized as a complicated and very demanding act of sabotage.
In the light journalistic environment at Marienlyst, one can allow themselves to snort that Hersh “used one anonymous source”, without taking into account that he has had whistleblowers in the Pentagon and other military environments for a lifetime and knows them inside and out. But one has no reservations about referring to an anonymous “source” without any other durability stamp than that it comes from a newsroom that has previously given us such journalistic achievements as “Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction” and other adventures.”
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