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'Malicious and targeted' sabotage halts rail traffic in northern Germany
Reuters via msn ^ | 10-8-22 | Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke

Posted on 10/08/2022 6:42:19 AM PDT by dynachrome

BERLIN (Reuters) -Attackers cut cables vital for the rail network in two places causing a near three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning, in what authorities called an act of sabotage without identifying who might be responsible.

The federal police has launched an investigation into the incident, Transport Minister Volker Wissing told a news conference. "It is clear that this was a targeted and malicious action," he said.

The disruption immediately raised alarm bells after NATO and the European Union last month stressed the need to protect critical infrastructure after what they called acts of "sabotage" on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

"We can't say much at the moment, it is too early," said a security source who declined to be named. The source said an intensive investigation into the incident had begun and a there were a variety of possible reasons for it, ranging from simple cable theft - which was frequent at the moment - to a targeted attack.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; germany; putinlovertrollsonfr; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; railroad; sabotage; zottherussiantrolls
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Hmmmmmm. Kherson bridge blown up, also.
1 posted on 10/08/2022 6:42:19 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Saboteurs in Germany.


2 posted on 10/08/2022 6:45:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

By whom?


3 posted on 10/08/2022 6:47:33 AM PDT by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: nwrep

The See Eye Ehay has been busy again?


4 posted on 10/08/2022 6:49:10 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: griswold3

Russia


5 posted on 10/08/2022 6:49:50 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: griswold3

No one effs with joe...


6 posted on 10/08/2022 6:50:02 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: dynachrome
Coming soon to city near you in America.

Smokin’ Joe himself told us the new demographic of border jumpers is suddenly Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan - all Communist countries hostile to the United States and the illegals are all steely eyed military age young men.

and the Leftists are all predicting impending civil war in the US.

How stupid can we be.

Nobody gets out of Cuba unless Castro wants them to. The Cubans coming into the country are are part of Castro's thugs who acting as the enforcers and secret police to support Maduro’s hated communist tyranny. We are importing an invading army and even of only 2% are of the 5 million Biden will have let in by next spring are actual saboteurs, that's still and army 100,000 so the numbers are staggering

7 posted on 10/08/2022 6:53:29 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: dynachrome

Did Russia figure out that the Germans were behind the Nordstream event?


8 posted on 10/08/2022 6:54:01 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: griswold3

9 posted on 10/08/2022 6:58:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: griswold3
NATO has no reason to sabotage in Germany except to make it look like Russia did it.
Russia has no reason to sabotage in Germany except to make it look like NATO did it.
But there are plenty of shady operatives who have every reason to keep the conflict going.
Take your pick.

Germany had some very scary terrorist groups in the past. Probably never disappeared entirely. Discontent brings them out. So would money.

10 posted on 10/08/2022 7:00:52 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: dynachrome

FBI knows no bounds.


11 posted on 10/08/2022 7:03:00 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: dynachrome

Western disinfo has been crowing about noble acts of sabotage in Russia for months. Anyone who knows the NATO war plans in Europe knows that the entire highway and rail network, when built or rebuilt from the 40s on, was designed to quickly move NATO prepositioned (primarily armor) assets east to the immediate war fighting front. I assume the Russians understand this. I posed the question on a thread yesterday asking if we’ve been tracking any movement of these armaments? Most likely they were moved to their “fail safe” positions on the Polish frontier back in the spring. Is the 82nd or 101st currently deployed in Poland? It’s like being in cataclysmic auto wreck, watching it unfold in slow motion, waiting for impact.


12 posted on 10/08/2022 7:07:25 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: dynachrome

Green lunacy makes itself manifest in many different ways.


13 posted on 10/08/2022 7:09:38 AM PDT by allendale
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causing a near three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning

Sounds like domestic sabotage, most likely in relation to Germany shipping weapons to Ukraine. Folks everywhere are getting fed up with the war-mongers.

14 posted on 10/08/2022 7:12:11 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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“Russia”

Of course. Thank you for the courage to comment.


15 posted on 10/08/2022 7:15:37 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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To: PAR35

No, the Biden admin probably found out that Germany was still going to be able to get gas thru that pipeline, though not as much as before.


16 posted on 10/08/2022 7:18:45 AM PDT by dforest
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Folks everywhere are getting fed up with the war-mongers.

I have heard that one of Putin's strategies could be to hold on, tough it out, be strong but not respond to provocations, and bore everyone to death with a slow grinding attrition war. The problem for the war mongers is that they proclaimed they were leading the coalition of the willing to uphold civilization and democracy. As it more and more looks to the world like they are the force for instability, deterioration and global looting for the wealthy - that coalition is fraying and countries are moving either to neutral or to the other side.

Coalitions doen't hold together when they have served their purpose - which shows that NATO and the EU are not coalitions but organs of empire who use force to punish defectors.

17 posted on 10/08/2022 7:36:58 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: hardspunned
Is the 82nd or 101st currently deployed in Poland?

I’m pretty sure a company or two from the 82nd is, but not a full battalion. My SIL is in the 82nd, and I was concerned he would be deployed when the news broke that “elements” of the 82nd were to be deployed to Poland.

18 posted on 10/08/2022 8:00:48 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Paladin2

At this point, J*e did it until proven otherwise.


19 posted on 10/08/2022 8:03:11 AM PDT by OKSooner (Nucular combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies! )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Haha, when I read the title that was the my first guess. Too many suspects out there.


20 posted on 10/08/2022 8:03:26 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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