[SmokingJoe]

The charges were placed by the Russians at or just after the outbreak of the war

Total NONSENSE!
Are you getting paid to spew out this garbage?

[pierrem15]

The same to you: Hersh's claim that the Norwegians were involved in the operation stinks of FSB propaganda.

You'd have to be smoking crack to think Norway would engage in an armed attack against one of its Nordic neighbors.

The accusation that Norway is "profiteering" from the pipeline blast is also staple of Russian propaganda.

The Russians blew up the pipelines only after it was clear no gas would be flowing through them and just after Germany began legal procedures to seize Gazprom's assets associated with the pipelines.

They also knew an ample number of America-hating morons, especially in Germany, but apparently many here on FR would eat up the conspiracy theory that the US was behind the blasts.