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Blast Rocks Government Buildings in Oslo

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Posted on Jul 22, 2011
AP / Fartein Rudjord

Victims receive treatment on the sidewalk in the center of Oslo on Friday after at least one explosion tore open several government buildings.

A powerful explosion rocked government buildings in Norway’s capital on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring a number of others near the prime minister’s office. One police source described it as a bomb, though no one has yet claimed responsibility.

Police in the area speculated about whether or not the blast was a terrorist action, perhaps intended for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, whose office was near the scene, but the question remained unanswered. Stoltenberg was not in his office at the time and was not injured. —BF

CNN:

There are conflicting reports about whether a second blast followed the first, which occurred mid-afternoon in the center of the Norwegian capital near the prime minister’s office.

A spokesman for Oslo police told CNN: “There has been a bomb explosion in the government area. At least one person is dead, and a number of people are injured. We don’t have the exact number yet.

“We don’t know if this comes from a terrorist action; we don’t know yet. We don’t know exactly how many explosions (there) were yet. Oslo center has been evacuated.”

He confirmed that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was not in his office at the time of the blast.

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PatrickHenry's avatar

By PatrickHenry, July 24, 2011 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment

Lew,

Typical hasbara on your part to make any criticism of Israel into one about Jews. 

Talk about twisted logic, yours however is intentional.

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By Lew Ciefer, July 24, 2011 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment

@ PatrickHenry, July 23 at 8:44 pm
Sorry Lew, I didn’t say the Jews did anything.  Don’t confuse Israel with the Jews or try to make them one and the same, they are not. 
I inferred Israel may have had a hand in it and has a motivation to do so.
Apparantly ‘anti-muslim’ furor was a purported motivation for the killer or should it be pro Israel furor, they are so close in meaning.

That’s some extraordinarily twisted logic P.H. I hope for your sake you don’t have your drawers and pant legs equally twisted.

Why don’t you go to Israel and present that bullshit to the Jews and especially the Palestinians. Hell, you’ll be a hero! You will have made peace in the Middle East. Bill Clinton will probably want a photo with you. Be careful if he has a cigar in his hand.

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By PatrickHenry, July 23, 2011 at 8:44 pm Link to this comment

Lew Ciefer,

Sorry Lew, I didn’t say the Jews did anything.  Don’t confuse Israel with the Jews or try to make them one and the same, they are not. 

I inferred Israel may have had a hand in it and has a motivation to do so.

Apparantly ‘anti-muslim’ furor was a purported motivation for the killer or should it be pro Israel furor, they are so close in meaning.

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By morristhewise, July 23, 2011 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment

Many desire fame and fortune but fortune is difficult to come by. The sociopath at
Oslo had no other motive except to become famous and he was successful. His
political views were strong but his desire to obtain fame was even stronger. The
choice of being taken alive was his perverted desire to experience the glory of
fame.

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By diamond, July 23, 2011 at 3:14 pm Link to this comment

But, Morristhewise, he was both. He set the bomb as a diversion so the police were completely preoccupied with that and then he went to the island - his real target, I believe- and shot as many of these children, aged from 14 up as he could. He even fired on the people in boats who came to the rescue of the young people who had jumped in the water and tried to swim away from the island. He is a Christian fundamentalist (you know, like Sarah Palin), anti-immigration, anti-Muslim and obviously anti the Labour Party government. One survivor described him as looking like a Nazi (he certainly looks like a perfect blonde Nazi poster boy) as he stood there with a sub-machine gun screaming that he would kill them all. It’s easy to say he was crazy but the absolute efficiency of how he went about this proves that he was stone cold sane and simply wanted to kill those who disagreed with his intolerant, inhuman beliefs that don’t resemble the teachings of Jesus in any way shape or form as far as I can see.

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By morristhewise, July 23, 2011 at 11:54 am Link to this comment

From Oslo to Arizona to Fort Hood, mad shooters have taken the place of mad
bombers. The mentally challenged have slowly discovered that instead of carrying
a heavy bomb a light weight glock can do the same job. Police cleanup squads
arrive after the killers glock`s are empty. Only Israel has stopped the mad shooter
by having every trusted citizen carry a glock, one bullet fired by a mad shooter
gets ten back into his sick brain.

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By Robert, July 23, 2011 at 11:45 am Link to this comment

Check this photo out. It was one day (7/21/2011) before the bombing. Same location, the camp, Utoya.

The same kids carrying a large “boycott Israel” banner.


http://politisk.tv2.no/nyheter/støre-om-israel-palestina-konflikten-–-okkupasjonen-ma-opphøre-muren-ma-rives-og-det-ma-skje-na/

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By Lew Ciefer, July 23, 2011 at 11:28 am Link to this comment

Some of you should learn to hold back your thoughts until more information is made available after any horrific acts such as this one. One of the earliest comments hinted to it being Jews although the commenter apparently lacked the intestinal fortitude to just come out a say the Jews did it. Right Patrick Henry?

It’s only natural that most—probably everyone but some won’t admit it—thought Islamic terrorists because the acts are so similar to what we’ve been seeing for decades now from Islamist terrorists. Also the timing coincided with yet another round of threats by yet another wacky Imam who is being deported from Norway and the threats against Norway by Islamists about having published the grenade-head-Mohammed cartoon.

Where are all the CIA finger-pointers? You know who you are. You’re the people that blame every act of Islamist terror on the CIA saying they are either CIA operatives or brainwashed victims, blah, blah, blah. What, the CIA can’t brainwash a white guy? Don’t you think that brainwashing a white guy serves Big Brother well? What will whites be able to say about the TSA groping searches of your bodies, the bodies of your mates and your children? Now the governments can say they have a white terrorist.

I’m really disappointed in you conspiracy theorists. Have you not noticed that this ‘terror event’ by a blond-haired, blue-eyed White man happened just days after a government report and propaganda video claims that middle-class whites are the more likely to be terrorists? Just a coincidence?

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By Lew Ciefer, July 23, 2011 at 11:25 am Link to this comment

@ morristhewise, July 23 at 7:03 am Link to this comment

The massacre at Oslo has awakened all peace loving people. Never before has society become aware of the triple threat that is challenging its sanity. Mad bombers,  mad shooters, and mad rapists have been showing their ugly heads. Unfortunately the police are not mind readers and these sickos cannot be detected and stopped beforehand. But thanks to the long hands of justice this insane trio will be caught and punished.

How old are you?

Have you studied any history at all? Does the ‘Red Army Faction’ (Baader-Meinhof), ring any bells? Yasser Arafat and the PLO? The Irgun and the King David Hotel? The IRA? The Shining Path? The UAC? The UDA? The UNLF?

Here’s a list of a few organizations. There are list of acts as well. Don’t forget State sponsored terror also. Take time to investigate the reality of life on the planet of the Homo sapiens ape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_organizations

The world never lacks for apes wanting to kill other apes. It’s all part of being an ape. Welcome to paradise.

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By doublestandards/glasshouses, July 23, 2011 at 11:24 am Link to this comment
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Glenn Greenwald asks, “Will tall, blond, Nordic-looking
males receive extra scrutiny at airports now…?”
http://www.solon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

Regardless of the extent of the carnage resulting, it’s not called “terrorism” when the perpetrators are discovered to be white males.  The msm is being very careful about that.  What they originally reported as a “terrorist attack” when it was thought that Islamic fundamentalists were involved, is now being referred to as a “bomb attack” since the alleged perpetrator is known to be a white man.  An entire race is being condemned and discriminated against because of the acts of a few extremists.

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By morristhewise, July 23, 2011 at 7:03 am Link to this comment

The massacre at Oslo has awakened all peace loving people. Never before has
society become aware of the triple threat that is challenging its sanity. Mad
bombers,  mad shooters, and mad rapists have been showing their ugly heads.
Unfortunately the police are not mind readers and these sickos cannot be detected
and stopped beforehand. But thanks to the long hands of justice this insane trio
will be caught and punished.

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By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., July 23, 2011 at 2:57 am Link to this comment

Latest; 91 dead total so far.
He was a Christian right winger, but no motive yet.
One reason the death toll is so high is because on the
island he shot people initially with a Glock 9mm and
then a shotgun blast to the head. That’s why few if any
wounded survived according to the reports.
Bad juju all round; the people on the island were kids
at summer camp and the shooter was dressed like a cop.
Damn, more shocking than 9/11, IMO.

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By Maani, July 22, 2011 at 10:36 pm Link to this comment

How interesting.  He’s not a Muslim.  (Apparently, he’s actually anti-Muslim.)  He’s not a member of a terrorist group.  He’s not a Christian zealot.  He is just a good old (or bad old) right-wing crazy.  How comforting…

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By morristhewise, July 22, 2011 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment

There is no person more dangerous than the madman with an AK-47 automatic
weapon. He usually is an anonymous loner until he makes headlines. There are
thousands of sickos who fit this description and ferreting them out is impossible.
Banning automatic weapon ownership would help, but the widespread and free
distribution of anti-psychotic medication would solve the problem.

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By diamond, July 22, 2011 at 2:49 pm Link to this comment

The man arrested for the shootings on the island of Utoya is a tall, blonde Norwegian man who went to the island on a ferry, dressed as a Norwegian policeman. He claimed he was there as extra security after the blast in Oslo and so they trusted him and he was able to choose his time to begin shooting. The police say the attacks are linked and so the Norwegian man who has been arrested could be responsible for both of them. Why would ‘al Qaeda’, even if it existed, target a Labour Party youth camp in Norway? On the other hand the attacks were very efficiently and professionally planned and carried out and that in itself raises lots of unanswered questions. The Norwegian government has not commented on motive and has pointedly refused to do so, but there will be a lot more coming out later because a full scale police investigation is already in action. It’s too soon to call it a black op but these days, that can never be ruled out.

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By kerryrose, July 22, 2011 at 2:16 pm Link to this comment

Frosty46

Norway is an enthusiastic participant in international military missions that has forces in Afghanistan and is participating in Western air strikes in Libya.

Peaceful at home maybe.

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By PatrickHenry, July 22, 2011 at 1:32 pm Link to this comment

Norway does not kowtow to Israel and in the past has had the tumerity to charge Israeli leaders with war crimes.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-olmert-livni-may-face-war-crimes-charges-in-norway-1.274588

When I hear the buzzwords like ‘chatter’ and ‘Al Qaeda’ immediately after an event such as this, my BS meter goes off the chart.

Many in the 3rd world still believe the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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By Frosty46, July 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm Link to this comment

Strange times these.  Horror has no boundaries but for these
peace loving folks it’s especially tragic!  Our condolences to the
families of those lost.

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By shadesofgrey, July 22, 2011 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment

wow. this is really tragic, on many levels. One of the more tolerant peace preferring people, independent of EU money crisis. And future left leader campers killed and terrorized (assume labour is left). wtf is going on?

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