Scores dead in terrorist attack in Oslo, Norway


3:55 pm - July 22nd 2011

by Sunny Hundal    


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Large explosions have rocked the capital of Norway around 3pm today.

They are assumed to be terrorist attacks, though no group has yet claimed responsibility.

ABC News reports it was a massive car-bomb.

The video below shows the scene from one of the explosions

This a picture the New York Times is using:

Evert Whitehouse in Oslo emails the BBC to say:

Well it’s quite shocking, it seems unreal that places here would be targeted by bombs. Apparently the prime minister is in safety and unharmed according to media reports here. The areas that have been hit, such as the government HQ looks like an urban warzone, glass lies scattered all over the streets and a building is on fire, from what I can see on the television. The areas are being cordoned off by the police in fear of more bombs going off.

Several people have been reported as injured. One person has been confirmed dead so far by the local station NRK.

YouTube video here shows lots of broken windows.

More pics from Twitter here.

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1. Tim Hardy

Many more images here and claim that police have arrested three at airport:
https://plus.google.com/111293145978179424990/posts

2. Shatterface

Took only minutes before the first wackjobs started claiming it was Murdock.

…and only a handful of hours before the first wackjobs started claiming it was Muslims.

From The Guardian at 21:48:

“The Norwegian justice minister has confirmed at a news conference that the suspect arrested today at the youth camp in Utøya was Norwegian.”

Given that the main target was a left-of-centre political party, perhaps we should be looking at the notoriously violent neo-Nazis who are gaining strength throughout Europe by having their poison pandered to by politicians and media moguls?

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5. Charlieman

@4. The Judge: “Given that the main target was a left-of-centre political party…”

Or perhaps we should return to the liberal politics that The Judge has previously professed. Wait until there is evidence.

6. Charlieman

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8. wikipedia

Anders Behring Breivik(born 13 February 1979) is a Norwegian citizen. He is the suspected perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, although it is yet unknown if he acted alone.[1][2][3]On 22 July 2011, he allegedly approached a Labour Party youth camp on Utøya, posing as a police officer, and then opening fire on the adolescents present, reportedly killing at least 80.[4]He has also been linked with the bomb blasts which had taken place approximately two hours earlier in Oslo. He was arrested on Utøya, and is currently in police custody.Behring studied at the Oslo Commerce School, and is described by newspaper Verdens Gangas Conservative and nationalist.[3]He is also described as a one-time freemason.[5]He expresses his sympathies for Winston Churchill and Norwegian anti-nazi World War II hero Max Manus on his alleged Facebook profile.[6]In May 2009 he founded the company Breivik Geofarm, a farm with 790 employees.[7]Norwegian media has speculated he used the farm as cover to legally obtain large amounts of artificial fertilizer and other chemicals in the manufacturing of explosives.[8]

….hasnt really said much about his religion, but I think The Judge might be spot on, sounds poltical if anything. Anyway,its not if anyone here has suggested otherwise, or wrote a long winded attack on islam, that would be daft

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10. Robert Hayward

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12. George W. Potter

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14. Planeshift

Lincoln, sounds like you’ve been listening to too much Burzum mate.

Also, if you’re going to cite ‘realism’ as justification for your undergraduate view of international relations you should probably bear in mind the most prominent Norwegian realist is Ole Waever who would find your own views warped and not from the realist school at all.

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I suspect you’ll be about as welcome in Norway as the psychopath responsible for the murders. Your views, as others have pointed out, are likely lie on the same continuum as his. Islamists nutters aren’t the only ones capable of committing outrages against innocent civilians as events like the Oklahoma bombings, the shootings in Dunblane and Columbine and the bombing of Bologna stations (to pick just a few from a long list) show.

16. George McLean

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17. Mr S. Pill

Mods: please do not delete the raving psychopathic Islamophobic comments from the fuckwit upthread. It’s important to see how this lunacy spreads (as others have noted, the attacker was probably cut from the same political cloth as our trolling friend).

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How can you even consider critisizing the suppression of individualism with your expressed views?

19. DisgustedOfTunbridgeWells

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/why-murdoch-is-not-a-fit-and-proper-person/

20. George McLean

@ Lincoln Baptista infra

Still there? If you are, you may be interested to hear that the Norwegian police have identified the suspect as “a fundamentalist Christian” … and “a conservative”.

The Norwegian police have identified the suspect as “a fundamentalist Christian” … and “a conservative”.

How do you “identify” someone as something? It’s a bit like a diagnosis? I’d like to know more about the process of “identifying”. Does it include any self-description?

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“He expresses his sympathies for Winston Churchill and Norwegian anti-nazi World War II hero Max Manus on his alleged Facebook profile”.

He’s an extreme right-winger and he expresses sympathies for an anti-nazi hero? It would be more congruent if he expresses sympathy for Vidkun Quisling.

22. George McLean

@ 21. Trofim

“How do you ‘identify’ someone as something? It’s a bit like a diagnosis? I’d like to know more about the process of ‘identifying’. Does it include any self-description?”

Yes – it involved self-identifying in this case, at th least from what we know so far.

I suppose you “identify” someone from a whole range of factors. More will undoubtedly emerge as we hear more. For example, you can identify someone’s political or philosophical identity by their self-description (eg “I am a person who promotes co-operatives” or “I say, ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'” [per Daily Mail]), by what they wear (eg a safety-pin through the nose or a badge saying “Nuclear power – no thanks”), by what they write on Liberal Consp – no, this is ridiculous! You know what it means!

The perpetrator appears to be (= is identified as being) a right-wing, fundamentalist Christian. Good job they’re not all like that, eh?

23. Teresa San

How do we know that the man in custody is really the one who shot the 86 teenagers? Did anyone actually see his face? How do we know they didn’t just frame this guy as the perpetrator? Don’t believe everything you read or see in the media. Did anyone see his face at the bombing? This sounds too fishy…


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