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Massive Gas Pipeline Blast Rocks Damascus Suburbs – 2nd Suspected Sabotage This Week

A huge explosion has rocked a Damascus suburb area on Wednesday evening (local), in what could be the second act of suspected sabotage against natural gas infrastructure in just a few days.

“A gas pipeline exploded Wednesday near the Tishreen power station in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta area in the Damascus countryside,“ Alikhbariah TV reported.

According to more per regional sources, “It said the loud blast heard in Eastern Ghouta was caused by the pipeline explosion near the power station.”

Unconfirmed images are already widely circulating…

Syria had reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in the prior six weeks.

One of these events happened Monday, and saw a fire rage out of control for many hours at a gas pipeline between al-Shola and Deir Ezzor following a mystery explosion.

For several years stretching through much of the last decade, Syrian cities – including the capital – have suffered intermittent and long power outages. It was especially during the tail-end of the proxy war to oust Assad that lack of fuel and electricity became a prolonged crisis.

Damascus residents, for example, often had a mere one hour of electricity in their homes per day – if at all. Entire remote villages and towns simply proceeded with daily life amid a total and persistent blackout.

This was to a large degree the result of a US-led sanctions war which in effect strangled the population. US troops had even for years directly occupied Syria’s eastern oil and gas fields, which had been crucial for meeting domestic energy needs.

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Mystery Explosions: Syria’s Recovering Gas Network Keeps Getting Sabotaged

Syria has reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in six weeks, and it raises questions over who or what group is behind it, and what this means for future energy transit projects.

Monday evening saw a fire rage out of control for many hours at a gas pipeline between al-Shola and Deir Ezzor following a mystery explosion. 

Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), which oversees the site, called it an act of sabotage which abruptly halted gas flows from the Jbeissa gas plant to power generation stations, according to details from state-run SANA.

The New Arab writes that “In January, the SPC began pumping raw gas from the Jbeissa fields in Hasakah to the Furqlus gas plant in Homs province, with around 1.2 million cubic metres passing through the network each day to support electricity generation.”

The report adds, “Damascus has also been working to reconnect other major eastern gas facilities to the national network.”

For several years stretching through much of the last decade, Syrian cities – including the capital – have suffered intermittent and long power outages. It was especially during the tail-end of the proxy war to oust Assad that lack of fuel and electricity became a major crisis.

Damascus residents, for example, often had a mere one hour of electricity in their homes per day – if at all. Entire remote villages and towns simply proceeded with daily life amid a total and persistent blackout. This was to a large degree the result of a US-led sanctions war which in effect strangled the population. US troops had even for years directly occupied Syria’s eastern oil and gas fields, which had been crucial for meeting domestic energy needs.

But now after Jolani and his HTS jihadists seized power, and with Washington sanctions declared removed, the country is trying to restore and rebuild services.

While no group has yet claimed responsibility for sabotaging facilities in the east, it illustrates how the country is still in a deeply unstable situation.

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Coordinated Sabotage Hits Dutch Rail Network at 20+ Sites, Sparking Chaos as Questions Mount Over Security

The Netherlands woke to transport chaos Tuesday after suspected coordinated sabotage crippled major railway routes, exposing just how easily critical infrastructure can be thrown into disarray while Dutch and European leaders increasingly focus their attention on threats from abroad.

According to reports from the Dutch media, objects deliberately fastened to railway tracks triggered safety systems across central and northern Netherlands, bringing trains to a standstill and leaving commuters stranded. ProRail, which manages the country’s rail infrastructure, said the evidence left little doubt that somebody had intentionally interfered with the network.

Workers began discovering sections of pipe attached to rails at around 5:30 a.m. Reports initially identified roughly 20 affected locations, while later accounts said security systems had been disrupted at more than 30 points.

The method wasn’t particularly sophisticated, but the consequences were enormous. By fooling track circuits into detecting trains where none existed, the objects automatically turned signals red and shut affected sections of railway.

Near Steenwijk, the situation became more dangerous when a train actually struck one of the pipes. Nobody was injured, according to ProRail, but deliberately putting material onto active railway lines clearly carried risks extending far beyond delayed commuters.

“We have been to these places and carried out investigations and found materials that were intentionally put there,” ProRail spokeswoman Joke van der Cruysen told NOS. “So we can say the railway has been sabotaged.”

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France: Authorities investigate train derailment that injured 44 for possible sabotage

French authorities are investigating a train derailment in Normandy that injured 44 people for possible sabotage after a piece of rail was found on the track.

The regional train was carrying 186 passengers from Rouen to Caen when it derailed Friday evening at Cléon, causing one carriage to tip onto its side.

A spokeswoman for France’s national police communications service, Service d’Information et de Communication de la Police Nationale (SICOP), told the Associated Press that a piece of rail found on the track was “probably” linked to the derailment.

“The reasons for its presence are unknown and will have to be determined by the investigation,” Rouen prosecutor Sebastien Gallois said, according to Agence France-Presse.

Cléon Mayor Melanie Delacour said the victims were “in a state of shock.”

“The windows of the carriages that remained upright shattered, and because of the train’s speed, stones flew into the carriages,” she told AFP.

Per police, the prosecutor’s office has remained cautious about drawing conclusions while the investigation is underway.

Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said 140 firefighters and other emergency teams were deployed to the scene of the crash on Friday.

One of the injured victims was an 18-year-old woman who was evacuated to Rouen University Hospital by helicopter in critical condition, police said.

“Suddenly there were a few jolts, and then after about three seconds it got stronger and stronger,” Louis, a train passenger, told ICI Normandie radio. “I couldn’t stay in my seat any more. The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I’m still shaking.”

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Nord Stream bombing suspect arrested while working on film about attack

A Ukrainian man arrested in the Nord Stream bombing was detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn, a report said Thursday.

Police in Pula, Croatia on Wednesday arrested Volodymyr Zhuravlyov under a European arrest warrant put out by Germany, which is seeking his extradition.

German prosecutors say Zhuravlyov is a trained diver and accuse him of helping plant explosives on the Baltic Sea energy link between Russia and Germany that destroyed three of the four pipelines in 2022.

Germany’s Legal Tribune Online reported he was arrested while working on the set for the movie “Snake Island” by US director Doug Liman (“Bourne Identity”), with Brody and three-time Oscar winner Penn.

Zhuravlyov worked as an advisor for the film, according to media reports AFP was unable to immediately verify with German or Croatian authorities.

The Ukrainian suspect had previously been held in Poland for his alleged role in destroying the pipelines.

But authorities there refused to extradite him and let him go, judging that any such Ukrainian attack would have been a legitimate act of war rather than a crime.

The Baltic Sea sabotage attack came months after Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

German investigators believe the attack was ordered by a Ukrainian state agency with the aim of depriving Russia of future energy revenues to finance its war in Ukraine.

Prosecutors charge Zhuravlyov worked closely with Sergiy Kuznetsov, another Ukrainian man who was arrested in Italy last year before being extradited to Germany.

The case is politically awkward for Germany and Ukraine, as Berlin has strongly backed Kyiv in its fight against Russia.

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Ukraine Blamed in Germany for War Crimes in Pipeline Sabotage, Shamed in Poland for Honoring Nazi Collaborators and War Criminals, Suspected in Monaco of Horrific Bombing

Heroes and villains in the Russia-Ukraine war: a warped tale.

Of course, if you check any report by the MSM, you’ll read about what awful criminals the Russians are and how the valiant, democratic Ukrainians shield Europe from this danger.

But just in the few days, we have learned such an astonishing amount of damaging information regarding Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime that it borders on the unbelievable.

To start, German police have charged a Ukrainian veteran with war crimes in the explosion of the Nord Stream Pipeline, and prosecutors have openly told the press that the sabotage was undertaken after ‘state orders’ coming from Kiev.

As you can read in Ukrainian Man Charged in Germany With War Crime Explosions That Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline – Prosecutors Say He Acted on ‘State Orders’ by Kiev Regime.

That alone should give anyone pause. But there’s much more.

In Poland, officials have stripped Zelensky of a highly prestigious decoration over his government’s decision to honor WW2 war criminals (is there a theme here?) by renaming a current army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Nazi collaborators who massacred 100,000 Poles (among other atrocities) in World War Two.

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Ukrainian Man Charged in Germany With War Crime Explosions That Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline – Prosecutors Say He Acted on ‘State Orders’ by Kiev Regime

A war crime ordered by Kiev, German prosecutors say.

Back on September 26, 2022, explosions destroyed the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that transported cheap Russian oil to Germany.

Some of us still remember how the Fake News MSM tried hard to convince us that the Russians had blown their own pipeline – but that didn’t take.

Later, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, based on his unnamed sources, wrote that the explosions were caused by the CIA.

But after a 4-year investigation, German police and prosecutors have arrived at the conclusion that a team of Ukrainians, ‘under state orders’, was guilty of the attacks.

Today, the leader of this team has been charged with what is essentially a war crime under international law: attacking civilian energy infrastructure. (Another source)

Serhii Kuznetzov, the head of the ‘Andromeda’ team, has also been charged with causing an explosion, destroying structures/infrastructure.

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AfD’s Weidel Demands Ukraine Pay Reparations Over Nord Stream “State Terrorist” Attack; Calls for End of Military and Financial Support

Co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD)—the most popular party in Germany—Alice Weidel has demanded that Ukraine pay reparations to Germany over the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, escalating a political fight over German sovereignty, cheap energy, deindustrialization, and Berlin’s open-ended support for Kyiv.

Speaking at an AfD event on Tuesday, Weidel rejected Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s proposal to move Ukraine closer to the European Union through associate membership. She described Kyiv as a “bottomless pit” that has already drained enormous sums from German taxpayers.

“Germany has already transferred more than €100 billion to Ukraine over the past four years alone,” Weidel said.

Her remarks come as German investigators continue pursuing suspects in the September 2022 sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2—the Baltic Sea pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas directly to Germany.

The blasts destroyed three of the four pipeline strands at a depth of roughly 80 meters. Nord Stream 1 had long delivered large volumes of cheap Russian gas to Germany, while Nord Stream 2 had been completed but never activated because of political tensions over Ukraine.

The sabotage, as many Germans see it, was not merely an attack on infrastructure, but an attack on Germany’s industrial future, energy independence, working class, and ability to remain economically sovereign.

Weidel said Ukraine must explain its role before Berlin considers further concessions, aid, or EU privileges, framing the pipeline destruction as a direct assault on Germany’s most important energy lifeline.

“We need to know how this state-terrorist act against the most important infrastructure we had, namely the Nord Stream pipelines, came about and what role Ukraine played in it,” she said.

German investigators have reportedly attributed the explosions to a small group of Ukrainian operatives. The alleged ringleader was extradited to Germany from Italy last autumn.

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Sabotage! Improvised Explosive Device Found Underwater At Alabama Dam, Threatening Water Supply

Divers conducting routine maintenance at the J.B. Converse Reservoir dam discovered a grenade-type improvised explosive device underwater, prompting a swift multi-agency response that resulted in the device’s safe removal and detonation, officials said. 

The Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) announced Tuesday that the Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team retrieved and detonated the IED at the federally designated critical infrastructure site. The 3,600-acre Converse Reservoir, also known as Big Creek Lake, holds approximately 17 billion gallons of water and serves as the primary drinking water source for about 350,000 residents in the Mobile area. 

Divers located the device during a standard survey for repairs and maintenance. MAWSS immediately notified the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, which coordinated a response involving the FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordnance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad, Daphne Search and Rescue Team, and other agencies. The Department of Homeland Security was also informed of the incident. 

MAWSS Director Bud McCrory described the discovery as an “unprecedented threat” and praised the rapid response.“

Our top priority is keeping your drinking water safe,” McCrory said. “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals. We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers — in identifying this device and safely destroying it.” 

Officials confirmed there was no damage to the dam or contamination of the water supply. MAWSS plans to increase security measures around the reservoir in response to the incident. Authorities have not released information on any suspects, and the investigation remains ongoing. 

The Converse Reservoir dam is one of several critical water infrastructure facilities across the United States that receive heightened federal protection.

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Former Ukrainian Erotic Model Part of the Team of Divers That Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline: REPORT

From erotic model to diver involved in a terrorist attack.

The German paper BILD comes with a revealing story about the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, arguably the ‘most geopolitically explosive attack in recent history’.

The German outlet interviewed Wall Street Journal journalist Bojan Pancevski, who wrote the book ‘The Nord Stream Blast’ with Paul Ronzheimer.

BILD reported (translated from the German):

“The Ukrainian military granted the reporter unprecedented access. He met the planners and assassins of the “largest sabotage in history” and spoke to the German investigators, who succeeded in painstakingly working and against all expectations to solve the attack on the pipelines that once brought Putin’s gas to Germany.”

The book alleges that the attack was master minded by former top General Valery Zaluzhny (currently ambassador to the UK), and that Kiev regime leader President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘knew about the sabotage attack that his officers were planning’.

While in Ukraine the attack is seen as a glorious combat operation, in Germany, BILD reports, no one defends the act of sabotage.

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