Galactus Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 According to New York Times an islamic terrorist group has claimed responsibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 BBC Live Stream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 @ketilbstensrud Ketil B. StensrudFirst photo from Utøya: yfrog.com/kj1nzimj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmis Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/174/174190/17419071/jpg/active/978x.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophelia Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 This is so horrible. My heart goes out to everyone affected. :grouphug: to Norwegian boarders and boarders in Norway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungtotte Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Not to be all cavalier over people dying, but it doesn't look like anywhere close to 20 people in either of those shots, so there's that at least. In the ground-level shot there are six blurs, and I make it to be no more than about 7-8 people in the overhead shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupigis Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 The figure 25-30 dead is starting to be reported by Swedish media as well. This is awful beyond words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 What are gun control laws in Norway like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 According to New York Times an islamic terrorist group has claimed responsibility.Groups do this all the time for attacks they had nothing to do with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S John Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Groups do this all the time for attacks they had nothing to do with.The building seems like something an Islamic terror group would do.. the camp though, that part seems weird to me. Why a secluded camp? Why not run amok in a city center? That makes it seem politically motivated to me, something domestic. Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupigis Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Police sources have reported at least 10 dead at Utøya.http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article3196145.ece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormund Ukrainesbane Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 What are gun control laws in Norway like?Bringing this up already?....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Norway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman of the North Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 Police sources have reported at least 10 dead at Utøya.http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article3196145.eceGiven the mount of time they have been in control of the island, lets hope this is more accurate than the earlier 'eye witness' report. In addition to the confirmed fatalities, several are severely wounded, and the Red Cross are asking for donations of Type O blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 This so insane. Glad to know everyone on here is safe. Crazy f*cking world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Bringing this up already?Calm down, i'm just curious how difficult this might have been to organize. (I think the connection between gun availability and violence isn't 1=1 anyway. Though, really, who does?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Good to know that the boarders in Oslo are alright, but very sorry for your losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vethnar Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I hope the rest of our Oslo-based crew are also unharmed.I'm fine. My job is not very close to the centre, and I didn't even hear the explosion.Of course this incident is tragic and dramatic -- especially because we all like to think of Norway as a place where nothing bad ever happens -- but I hope the media doesn't blow it all out of proportion and create mass paranoia. So far, it looks like only about 20 people died, and that a single person may have been behind both attacks. In the grand scheme of things, that's not a lot in a city of more than half a million inhabitants. I don't fear similar attacks in the future, but I do fear about how average Norwegians will react. The way the attacks are presented in the local newspapers scares me a lot more than the attacks by themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mme Erzulie Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 There's now speculation that right-wing forces are behind the attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman of the North Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 So the latest is that the police don't think this is related to international terrorism, but rather a 'local variant'. The man apprehended at Utøya, who apparently is a 'known person' to the police, have also been observed at the bomb site a couple of minutes before the blast.I'm not sure if this 'local variant' are supposed to be a local islamist group or a local right wing group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFlare Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Good god.Does Norway have a lot of domestic terrorist groups? Because the attack on the island sounds more like something that would be done by a domestic group rather than an international one like al-Qaeda.The double attack is AQ's specialty. Usually it's two of the same type of attack, but maybe they switched it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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