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Norway: Multiple Fatalities and Injuries After Massive Vehicle Bomb in Oslo

07/22/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Some news reports are talking about the possibility that this was the work of Islamists.

Update 1: NRK has reported that an Islamist group calling itself ‘Helpers of the Global Jihad’ have now posted a message stating that this is only the beginning of the reaction to Norwegian papers publishing cartoons of Mohammed …

Update 2: Islamist group ‘Helpers of the Global Jihad’ are now denying any involvement in today’s attack.  So far there does not appear to be any solid Islamist connection. Suspect may have acted alone.  No word yet on motive or how he could have single-handedly produced such a powerful explosion if this was all perpetrated by a single homegrown terrorist.

“A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s office, killing at least one person and injuring several others.

Norwegian broadcaster NRK said one person was confirmed dead in the explosion.

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.

The blast blew out most windows on the 17-story building housing Stoltenberg’s office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire.

Heavy debris littered the streets and a tall plume of brown smoke over the city center.

A Reuters correspondent counted at least eight injured people. Norwegian news agency NTB said that Stoltenberg was safe in the blast, which happened around 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT).” Read more.


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  1. Osman's avatar
    Osman
    07/22/2011 at 12:07 PM
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    I am very shocked to hear of this …..why would anyone bomb norway?! my thoughts are with the people of Norway….it has a well deserved international image of being one of the most fair and peaceful countries I can think of…. im sure they will blame it on a muslim but honestly I really believe that its doubtful that this bombing is in any way related to Islamic terrorism….admitted I come from a muslim family and I acknowledge that some people would say I am not in a position to comment but i say the above without being in denial….i could be proved wrong by some evidence that pops up at a later date proving a so called link to ‘al qaeda’ but i seriously do not believe everything i hear on the news…..

    My personal opinion is that this is somehow related to economics and that some external influences have probably targeted Norway because of its relative economic stability and increasing status as being a safe haven currency (Norweigian Kroner) ….in a world of madness although a controversial view who is to say that this is not a possibility….. If it is alqaeda who done this I hope more than anyone that they are destroyed I am sick of living with the shame of supposedly sharing the same faith as this umbrella organisation

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  2. Willard's avatar
    Willard
    07/22/2011 at 12:37 PM
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    I have never been to Norway and have always heard good things about it. But there has been a lot of press over the years that Norway has a serious antisemintec problem just like much of the populations of europe, Canada, the USA and a very large part of the world especially in the universities. As I have just posted on another post the world is paying and going to pay the price for breaking God’s Foreign Policy agrement with Israel and the world and it is below.

    Ge 12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household d and go to the land e I will show you. Ge 12:2 “I will make you into a great nation g and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. Ge 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; j and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

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