were critical of the article. Hersh's article had cited documents produced by US military intelligence which stated that it believed anti-government forces in Syria had the precursor chemicals for the production of Sarin. On June 25, 2017, Welt am Sonntag published Hersh's article "Trump's Red Line". This had been rejected by the London Review of Books. He said there was a split between the U.S. intelligence community and president Donald Trump over the alleged 'sarin attack' at the rebel-held town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib on April 4, 2017: "Trump issued the order despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community that it had found no evidence that the Syrians had used a chemical weapon". Bellingcat accused Hersh of sloppy journalism: "Hersh based his case on a tiny number of anonymous sources, presented no other evidence to support his case, and ignored or dismissed evidence that countered the alternative narrative he was trying to build." Journalist George Monbiot criticized Hersh for not giving the building coordinates to enable verification from satellite imagery and for relying on refuted analysis by Ted Postol. Nord Stream sabotage In February 2023, in the post How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline on Substack, Hersh stated that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines had been carried out by the US Navy, the CIA, and the Norwegian Navy, under the direct order of President Biden. Hersh's report relied on an anonymous source who stated that, in June 2022, US Navy divers placed explosive C4 charges on the pipelines at strategic locations selected by the Norwegians. The source said that charges were placed under the cover of a multi-nation wargame simulation known as BALTOPS 22, and remotely detonated three months later by a signal from a sonar buoy dropped by a Norwegian P-8 surveillance plane. Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said the United States had questions to answer over its role in the explosions. The same sentiment was also expressed by the Chinese foreign ministry. A spokesperson for the United States National Security Council said the report was "utterly false and complete fiction". The CIA said the contents of Hersh's article were "completely false", and this was also the reaction from the Norwegian Foreign Department. Hersh wrote that NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg had been cooperating with US intelligence services since the Vietnam War and has been cleared ever since. At the time