U.S. Intelligence: Russia Sabotaged BTC Pipeline Ahead Of 2008 Georgia War: A mysterious explosion on a pipeline in Turkey just before the Georgia-Russia war broke out in 2008 may have been a Russian cyberattack, a new investigation argues, citing United States intelligence officials. According to the investigation, by Bloomberg, the explosion on August 5, 2008, at Refahiye in eastern Turkey, was the result of a hack on the computers managing the pipeline. Surveillance footage captured two men in black military-style uniforms without insignias, similar to the garb worn by special forces troops, shortly before the explosion. Software planted in the pipeline system shut down alarms and raised the pressure in the pipeline to such a high level that it exploded, four western intelligence officials told the agency. The connection to Russia is solely circumstantial. U.S. intelligence agencies believe the Russian government was behind the Refahiye explosion, according to two of the people briefed on the investigation. The evidence is circumstantial, they said, based on the possible motive and the level of sophistication. Russia certainly has the means to carry out such an attack, as well as the motive. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, carrying oil from the Caspian Sea to Turkeys Mediterranean coast, was the greatest geopolitical victory by the U.S. in post-Cold War Eurasia, breaking Russias monopoly on energy exports from the Caspian. And U.S. intelligence officials appear to be thinking that way: The chief suspect, according to U.S. intelligence officials, is Russia. read more eurasianet.org/node/71291
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:16:36 +0000
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