Blast rocks central Oslo, Norway PM's office

Jason P
Jason P Posts: 19,436
edited July 2011 in A Moving Train
OSLO (Reuters) - A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters journalist said from the scene.
The cause of the blast was unknown but the tangled wreckage of a car was outside one building and the damage appeared consistent to witnesses with that from car bombs. Police and fire officials declined comment on the cause.
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http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-rocks-central-oslo-norway-pms-office-134903379.html

I wonder who was behind the blast? :think:
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  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    This one hits home as I have family who live in Norway and a cousin who lives in Oslo. They're all fine, but what does this mean going forward? Who did this, and why, are questions I want answered, but I'm not looking forward to dealing with those answers.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,436
    kenny olav wrote:
    This one hits home as I have family who live in Norway and a cousin who lives in Oslo. They're all fine, but what does this mean going forward? Who did this, and why, are questions I want answered, but I'm not looking forward to dealing with those answers.
    I'm glad everyone is fine!

    Now there are reports of a gunman opening fire on children at a youth camp connected to the Prime Minister of Norway. :(
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  • Indifference
    Indifference Posts: 2,785
    NRK is reporting that an unknown group called "Helpers of the Global Jihad" have posted a message that this is only the beginning of the reaction to Norwegian periodical­s publishing the Muhammed cartoons, according to Andrew Boyle, a journalist in Norway.

    Last week, Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born cleric who lives in Norway, was charged with terrorism after allegedly threatenin­g politician­s with death if Norwegian authoritie­s deport him. Krekar is the founder of the militant Kurdish Islamist group Ansar Al Islam."

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  • JonnyPistachio
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    Indifference wrote:
    NRK is reporting that an unknown group called "Helpers of the Global Jihad" have posted a message that this is only the beginning of the reaction to Norwegian periodical­s publishing the Muhammed cartoons, according to Andrew Boyle, a journalist in Norway.

    Last week, Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born cleric who lives in Norway, was charged with terrorism after allegedly threatenin­g politician­s with death if Norwegian authoritie­s deport him. Krekar is the founder of the militant Kurdish Islamist group Ansar Al Islam."

    This all about cartoons?! Holy shit, that's messed up. :(
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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    The extremists take those cartoons very seriously JohnnyP.

    This is very sad. Oslo is somewhere I would like to visit some day.

    God bless the people there.

    My condolences on their losses today.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Why are peoples feelings hurt by fucking cartoons.

    Grow the fuck up assholes.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,134
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Why are peoples feelings hurt by fucking cartoons.

    Grow the fuck up assholes.

    it's not hurt feelings, they are just looking for any reason that they can feel justifies their terror. they are just evil people. Condolences to anyone affected by these acts of terror.
  • PJPOWER
    PJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    Sick fucking dogs! Typical terroristic coordinated attack; they get the emergency services tied up in one location and devestate another. My heart goes out to those effected by this and hope that we can be successful in preventing similar events in the future...because the bastards that do this stuff are not going to stop trying any time soon.
  • shadowcast
    shadowcast Posts: 2,384
    Savages. :evil:
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,436
    Reports state that nine people were shot at the camp but that the shooter is in custody. Being that the shooting took place on the island, that leads me to believe that the shooter wasn't planning on still being alive at this point.

    It's time to start extracting information from him.
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  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    It is an ethnic Norwegian who was arrested for the shootings on the island, and it seems he might be behind the bombing in Oslo too.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/world ... .html?_r=1

    Initial reports focused suspicion in Islamic extremists, even as Muslim leaders in Norway swiftly condemned the attacks. “This is our homeland, this is my homeland; I condemn these attacks and the Islamic Council of Norway condemns these attacks, whoever is behind them,” said Mehtab Afsar, secretary general of the Islamic Council of Norway.

    According to Will McCants, a terrorism analyst at C.N.A., a research institute, a previously unknown group, Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were a response to the presence of Norwegian forces in Afghanistan and to unspecified insults to the Prophet Muhammad.

    But Norwegian television reports later suggested that the group had denied responsibility. In the immediate aftermath of recent terrorist attacks, jihadi forums are often filled with claims and counterclaims that are impossible to independently confirm.

    A threat assessment released in March by the Norwegian police said that though support for extremist Islamic terrorism was not widespread, “activity in certain communities” meant that the threat level would be heightened in 2011. “Some extreme Islamists currently appear to be more globally oriented,” the report said, “and it is primarily this group who could present a direct threat to Norway in the year ahead.”
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,067
    Fuck everyone who looked at Muslims immediately after hearing the word "bomb."

    http://www.journal-news.com/news/nation ... 13236.html

    "Norway police official tells AP attacks in Norway don't appear linked to Islamist terrorism"
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    fuck wrote:
    Fuck everyone who looked at Muslims immediately after hearing the word "bomb."

    http://www.journal-news.com/news/nation ... 13236.html

    "Norway police official tells AP attacks in Norway don't appear linked to Islamist terrorism"
    Blame the media.. CNN had a story that linked it to Islamic Terror group.

    Word is he is part of a right wing Christian fundamentalist group.. Time to round up all the right winged Christians and send the to G Bay! :twisted:




    At least 87 are dead now from the shooter. How did he take that many out without being stopped? Something is missing here.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Gob wrote:
    At least 87 are dead now from the shooter. How did he take that many out without being stopped? Something is missing here.

    But apparently it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people!

    I wonder whether he'd have been able to kill so many people armed with just a knife?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited July 2011
    Oppose all ideologies!


    Fuck these people!
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Gob wrote:
    At least 87 are dead now from the shooter. How did he take that many out without being stopped? Something is missing here.

    But apparently it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people!

    I wonder whether he'd have been able to kill so many people armed with just a knife?
    Point taken, but even with a gun, how did he get more than a few dozen?


    Even if you make all guns illegal, try telling me you couldn't get one if you really needed one. Look at drugs. Now not only do you have an underground dangerous market for selling them, but the people who plan to use them to do no good getting them anyways. :?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Gob wrote:
    Even if you make all guns illegal, try telling me you couldn't get one if you really needed one. Look at drugs. Now not only do you have an underground dangerous market for selling them, but the people who plan to use them to do no good getting them anyways. :?

    It would still be more difficult to get hold of one, thereby reducing the chances of such large massacres occuring.

    Though I don't know what gun laws/restrictions are like in Norway.
  • Shawshank
    Shawshank Posts: 1,018
    Well I can promise you, Norway isn't Texas, so if it can happen there, it can probably happen anywhere, regardless of gun laws.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Still, looks like this was carried out by white, right-wing extremists, and not religious nutters.
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    This is being reported as the suspect's Twitter page:

    http://twitter.com/#!/AndersBBreivik

    There was a link to his Facebook page, but it's been taken down. However, it's being reported that the Facebook page showed that he was a fan of World of Warcraft, as well as Orwell's 1984 and JS Mill's On Liberty.

    Anders B Breivik is being reported as the suspect's name from mainstream sources...

    http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe ... atest+news

    The picture seen with the story above makes me physically ill.

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