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abdikarim86 wrote:I really hope this turns out to be the case.
Could it be possible that he is a convert?
http://www.journal-news.com/news/nation ... 13236.htmlNorway police official tells AP attacks in Norway don't appear linked to Islamist terrorism
Its not about being anti-muslimAdvo wrote:His right wing conservative christian who loved watching DEXTER
and favorite movies were Gladiator and 300 (white supremacist perhaps).
This Anti Muslim MUSLIMS on this forum must feel shitty now.
its not the first time that islamists kill women and children in the beginning I though that it was armed islamists.Terror returns to hit Norway
At least 17 dead in attacks on Oslo and island youth camp
By Tony Paterson, Paul Peachey and Charlotte Sundberg
Saturday, 23 July 2011
A survivor of the bombing which killed seven and injured dozens more walks away from the blast site
A meticulously planned terrorist attack hit Norway yesterday when a bomb blast in Oslo and a lone gunman killed at least 17 people in the country's worst atrocity since the Second World War.
A devastating bomb ripped through the capital killing at least seven people close to the offices of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Hours later a gunman posing as a policeman rampaged through an island 20 miles away after infiltrating a youth camp organised by the ruling Labour party and attended by 600 people, some as young as 13.
Campers fled as the gunman, confirmed as Norwegian last night, fired at groups of youngsters. Many of them fled into the sea to try to escape and others scrambled to hide in the buildings and undergrowth. One witness said he saw at least 20 people lying dead in the water. The gunman was wounded and in custody.
Initial suspicion fell on Islamist militants angered by Norway's military role in Afghanistan though the physical appearance of the gunman – who was arrested after he was shot and wounded – raised the possibility of an attack by far-right extremists. Police said they did not believe that it was international terrorism, according to officials cited by Norwegian news agency NTB.
The attacks – the deadliest in Western Europe since the 2005 London bombings which killed 52 people – were carefully planned. Police believe that the gunman was in Oslo before the bomb attack before heading to the island and tricking his way past security to get on to the island where the premier was thought to have been due to speak to the campers.
Mr Stoltenberg appeared to be a possible target of the attacks as the bomb exploded just outside his office. He was at home at the time of the attack and was not harmed.
"Co-workers have lost their lives today," he said. "It's frightening. That's not how we want things in our country. But it's important that we don't let ourselves be scared. Because the purpose of that kind of violence is to create fear."
The army established a cordon around Oslo following the bomb attack that injured scores of people.
The United States, European Union, NATO and the UK, all quickly condemned the bombing, which Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called "horrific" and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen deemed a "heinous act". "It's a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring," President Barack Obama said.
The central part of the city yesterday resembled a battlefield with dozens of windows blown out by the huge explosion while shell-shocked inhabitants and tourists wandered through broken glass and rubble, blood-smeared and bleeding from their wounds. Two people were badly wounded in the blast, police said.
There was no warning given for the attack but the Norwegian authorities were yesterday reported to have only recently warned about the possibility of terrorist attacks because of the country's military engagement in Afghanistan.
A terror group, Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (the Helpers of the Global Jihad), issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, according to Will McCants a terrorism analyst cited by The New York Times. The message said it was in response to Afghan forces in Afghanistan and unspecified insults to the Prophet Mohammed. The claims could not be confirmed.
Islamic fundamentalist internet forums were yesterday reported to have described the Oslo blast as "cheering news". One user was quoted as saying: "Get your troops out of Afghanistan or you will see blood on the streets." Since the publication of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper five years ago, al-Qa'ida has declared its intention to carry out an act of revenge on a Scandinavian country.
The centre of Oslo was rapidly sealed off by police because of fears of another blast, while bomb disposal experts scoured the area in search of possible bombs.
"Some people covered with blood are lying in the street. There is glass everywhere. It is total chaos. The windows of all the surrounding buildings have been blown out," said Igunn Andersen, an eyewitness and journalist with Norwegian public radio reporting from the scene.
As the injured were being treated, reports detailed a second attack on the island of Utoya, some 20 miles to the northwest. Police said the gunman pulled out a gun and started firing into crowds of youths. "I saw a lot of people running and screaming so I ran to the nearest building and hid under a bed," Emilie Bersaas, 19, told Sky News. "At one point the shooting was very, very close ... the people in the next room screamed really loud. We're all a bit shaken up right now because we don't know who is fine and who is not fine. I'm a little worried about my friends and the other people on the island."
Grethe Helen Larre told The Independent that she watched the drama through binoculars from the mainland across the water from Utoya when she first heard the shooting. "There were naked, pale bodies hiding behind bushes. A lot of people were in the water. They were swimming and trying to get away," she said.
"Boats were picking people up from the water and shipping them over to our side of water where we tried to take care of them. I held one young man who had been shot; his leg was broken and he had open wounds from the shooting.
"We gave them blankets and tried to calm them down. They were all in a state of panic, crying. There were so many of them; youngsters down to the age of 13, youths, grown ups. People were looking for their loved ones."
Police teams were still searching the waters last night for people missing with the toll expected to rise.
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AUNGaruun wrote:this young somali guy was among the dead in the youth camp..horrofic
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