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Attack on Norway

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Blasts & Shootings in Norway

A person dressed as a policeman has fired shots at the Labour Party Youth Camp on Utoya Island in Norway, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK and the press representative for the Norwegian state secretary said Friday. Many people are injured.

NRK says the shooting is continuing. It says there are about 700 people at the camp.
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"There are still a lot of people dead inside the government building,” she said. “There are going to be a lot of people injured, a lot of people dead.”
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Doesn't look too good. Hope any :monkey:'s out there are safe.

Is it time to start the betting pool? Muslim (Terrorist), Norwegian Teabagger, or Death Metal Church Burners?
 
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norway is socialist, so those uppity t-baggers are on the short list
 
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whoever's long on geert wilders stock may now collect his windfall
 
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"Anders Behring Breivik" doesn't sound very...jihadi

and this cat's just to the right of genghis khan

A Facebook page matching his name and the photo given out by the police was set up just a few days ago. It listed his religion as Christian, politics as conservative. It said he enjoys hunting, the video games World of Warcraft and Modern Warfare 2, and books including Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and George Orwell’s “1984.”
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well i honestly didn't see that coming
 
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From the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461104576462852407423240.html#articleTabs=article

When cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper in the fall of 2005 and sparked a full-blown jihadist campaign against Denmark, then-Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen responded with a telling remark. "We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie," he told the German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Norwegians thunderstruck by yesterday's seemingly coordinated bombing and shooting attacks appear to feel the same way. "Of course I'm scared," one ferryboat worker told the New York Times, "because Norway is such a neutral country."

Norway is not, in fact, a neutral country. Though it isn't a member of the European Union, it is a founding member of NATO. Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri has repeatedly singled out Norway in his videotaped messages for "[participating] in the war against the Muslims." Theories abound about the specific nature of Oslo's "crime": the 400 troops it currently deploys to Afghanistan; its house arrest of Mullah Krekar, a founder of the Kurdish terrorist group Ansar al-Islam; the republication of the Danish cartoons in a small Norwegian paper.

Perhaps all this is at work. Or perhaps not: At our first deadline reports indicated that the attacks were the work of a jihadist group. Later in the evening evidence emerged that a suspect in the shooting attack on a youth camp was an ethnic Norwegian with no previously known ties to Islamist groups. Coordinated terrorist attacks are an al Qaeda signature. But copycats with different agendas are surely capable of duplicating its methods.

Whatever the case, the attacks demonstrate that Norway is no more immune than any other country to such atrocities, no matter what its foreign or domestic policies may be. If this does prove to be the work of Islamists, it will be noted that neither Norway's opposition to the war in Iraq nor its considerable financial and political support for the Palestinians spared it from attack.

In its hour of grief, we're confident that Norway, like other free societies beset by terror, will respond with conviction, courage and resilience.
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:rolleyes:

edit: And apparently that's the "sanitized" version. The print edition was something else...

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The original in the paper edition assumed it was a Jihadist attack (although I never read any reports to that effect). Then, in the updated version on the web site, the editors mistakenly deleted the list of Norway's anti-Zionist pro-Arab policies that appeared in the original. The Journal muffed this one twice.
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Toshi

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Silver's worldview has just imploded.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/europe/gallery/Norway-terror-attacks-16159/photo-1141577.php

"Terror Attacks?"

The news just CAN'T call this terrorism, because there's a white right-wing suspect!! Without that crutch to lean on, how can we keep making "brown people" snark in good conscience?!

I mean, it's almost like people will consider Timothy McVeigh a terrorist or something now, too.
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NYTimes has sanitized their coverage. They mention in the text that he might be prosecuted under "the country's terrorism laws" but the attack is a generic "Shooting and Bomb Attack" now.

Fox News picks up the generic AP article, which also says he "has been preliminarily charged with acts of terrorism." The AP article buries the stuff about the right-wing Christian fundamentalist leanings of the shooter well into the body.

Reuters puts that info up front: "(Reuters) - A suspected far-right gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo." They also mention McVeigh. Bravo. The word "terror" isn't found anywhere in the text, for what that's worth.
 
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I'm not as concerned about that since "terrorism" is now (unfortunately) a loaded word. It's been overused by Fox et al to convey something that it never really was (any type of violence that the right wing abhors, like attacks on our troops) and so I'm pretty sure that main news outlets have stepped back from using it due to the continuous right-wing connotations.
 
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I got buds in Oslo for a suspension event, and they were in front of the bomb site 2 hours before it went up. Friends in the area had their windows blown out from the explosion, but everyone is safe. Six degrees results in spooky times.
 
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May all those involved find some sort of peace eventually. I don't know the feeling of losing a child myself, but I do know that this can't be an easy time for Norway to recover from and I hope that the Nation can find solace without causing any unnecessary xenophobic action, which would only help aggravate existing troubles
 
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trib said:
May all those involved find some sort of peace eventually. I don't know the feeling of losing a child myself, but I do know that this can't be an easy time for Norway to recover from and I hope that the Nation can find solace without causing any unnecessary xenophobic action, which would only help aggravate existing troubles
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Well, judging by the mug shot, they won't have to invade Afghanistan or some other sh!thole, just the local Gap or Old Navy.
 
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In the days ahead, we can expect more false flag terror events. These will be used by the corporate media to portray opponents to the bankster scam as child killing terrorists. For the global elite, mass murder blamed on political opponents is a legitimate tool in the plan to take down national economies and install a one-world totalitarian government and banking system run in neofeudal fashion.
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well, naturally.

i'm just surprised he got this analysis before george friedman, who's obviously slipping
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/eirik-bergesen/norway-is-passing-the-tes_b_908008.html

"... instead of retaliating politically, legally or simply through moral finger-pointing towards groups and individuals harbouring these beliefs, the Norwegian government has retaliated with more democracy.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has stated clearly that the terror will be met with more democracy and more openness..."

Norway, you rock.
 
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