Oslo bombed

Crazy Horse 6 · 22-07-2011 10:22PM

Nodin wrote: »

...which is why I always tell people that in the absence of an alternative to Sky News, forget about it and check back on a proper news service later.

Proberly the most sensible post on here all year.

raveni · 22-07-2011 10:24PM

smilerxxx wrote: »

Can't understand motives when it comes to kids ( I know they were labour youth and this is seemingly political ) but they are clearly kids

Exactly, kids who hadn't even had the chance to get properly involved in politics yet, some of them could have been future politicians in Norway if they'd been given the chance. There's just no sense in it either way, but when it's aimed at kids it just seems that extra bit more cowardly.

Crazy Horse 6 · 22-07-2011 10:24PM

It looks like a lot of kids died trying to swim to the shore from the island.:( Can't even imagine that choice.

prinz · 22-07-2011 10:24PM

Jesus more explosives found on the island. City centre of Oslo evacuated for the night. Really sounds like an attempt to target the Prime Minister tbh, not only to bomb his offices but he was supposed to be on the island too, attempting to get him there makes more sense than attacking a bunch of camping kids.

fryup · 22-07-2011 10:25PM

Cat Melodeon wrote: »

Knut Storberget, the Minister of Justice and Policing, has just confirmed that the suspect arrested is Norwegian.

Can all conspiracy theorists, religious bigots and general racists perhaps retract their gross assumptions?

well Al Quaida cells have been known to recruit people from their host countries

opinion guy · 22-07-2011 10:25PM

prinz wrote: »

Jesus more explosives found on the island. City centre of Oslo evacuated for the night. Really sounds like an attempt to target the Prime Minister tbh, not only to bomb his offices but he was supposed to be on the island too.

Agreed - seems like some sort of assassination attempt

Callan57 · 22-07-2011 10:26PM

Stieg Larsson's far right ..... I wonder?

Oh_Noes · 22-07-2011 10:29PM

fryup wrote: »

well Al Quaida cells have been known to recruit people from their host countries

Yeah sure and if they're not doing that, they're recruiting people from their home countries. Pretty much 100% of everyone in the world is potentially a member of Al-Quada. This is why we would need some actual evidence to distinguish between people.

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:29PM

Police can still not confirm if the shooter was working alone, either on island or with bombing.

Eyewitness report of 20-30 bodies in the water, but police will not confirm.

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:31PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Agreed - seems like some sort of assassination attempt

The security around the PM is almost non-existent. It is not unusual to see him and his wife out in the countryside skiing or walking. A very easy target for any assassin.

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:32PM

all in Norwegian, but the national tv station is transmitting news throughout the night and live here

http://www.nrk.no/video/direkte_bombeeksplosjon_i_oslo/43FF687EE064C88B/

wild_cat · 22-07-2011 10:33PM

I'm only reading about all this now.

Sweet jesus.

Cat Melodeon · 22-07-2011 10:33PM

fryup wrote: »

well Al Quaida cells have been known to recruit people from their host countries

Yes indeed. There have also been incidents of nationals bombing their own countries. Heard of Timothy McVeigh?

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:34PM

A powerful image for all the racists

http://i.imgur.com/v6ZqD.jpg

prinz · 22-07-2011 10:34PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

The security around the PM is almost non-existent. It is not unusual to see him and his wife out in the countryside skiing or walking. A very easy target for any assassin.

They didn't take the lessons of Olaf Palme or Anna Lindh...

smilerxxx · 22-07-2011 10:35PM

Go steig. Jo nesbo isn't far behind him. The parents of those kids. . Can't comprehend their thoughts now.

This is looking like an assassination attempt

Oh_Noes · 22-07-2011 10:36PM

wild_cat wrote: »

I'm only reading about all this now.

Sweet jesus.

My initial thoughts when I first heard this news today were that Norway is culturally similar to Ireland, with a similar population/politics/economy. If something like that can happen there, it could probably just as easily happen here too. It's frightening really.

smilerxxx · 22-07-2011 10:36PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

My initial thoughts when I first heard this news today were that Norway is culturally similar to Ireland, with a similar population/politics/economy. If something like that can happen there, it could probably just as easily happen here too. It's frightening really.

^^^ this

Iwasfrozen · 22-07-2011 10:38PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

My initial thoughts when I first heard this news today were that Norway is culturally similar to Ireland, with a similar population/politics/economy.

lol, we wish.

MagicMarker · 22-07-2011 10:41PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

A powerful image for all the racists

http://i.imgur.com/v6ZqD.jpg

I hope you're not assuming that man is a muslim? Racial profiling is nothing to be proud of.

Norwayviking · 22-07-2011 10:41PM

smilerxxx wrote: »

Go steig. Jo nesbo isn't far behind him. The parents of those kids. . Can't comprehend their thoughts now.

This is looking like an assassination attempt

since the attacker targeted both the goverment buildings and the youth camp for the labor party,i dont think it looks like a assassination attemt.;)
But then again nobody knows the motives behind the attack yet,but clearly it most have been political.

prinz · 22-07-2011 10:42PM

Panellists on Sky News not toeing the party line of blaming Al Qaida.

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:42PM

prinz wrote: »

They didn't take the lessons of Olaf Palme or Anna Lindh...

A matter of pride.

In 1973 when the international oil crisis limited the use of private cars, the King or Norway travelled by public transport. In the same year he travelled to Holmenkollen on the tram insisting that he paid the conductor for his fare (right). He was asked how he dared to go out in public without bodyguards. He replied that he had 4 million bodyguards—the entire population of Norway.

Pic
http://anewlifeinnorway.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/olav-tram.jpg

Turtwig · 22-07-2011 10:43PM

LOL
Sky News just got classic.:D

Nodin · 22-07-2011 10:43PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I hope you're not assuming that man is a muslim? Racial profiling is nothing to be proud of.

He stated "racists". Had he meant to refer to the muslim bashers he doubtless would have referred to sectarianism in some manner.

aligator_am · 22-07-2011 10:43PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Just spoke to my brother, the bombs went off two buildings away from his office! he's blessed, he was going out the door about 2 minutes earlier and someone stopped him to ask him something, he would have going by the bombs when they exploded

An update on this, rang the brother again a little while ago, think the first time I spoke to him he was in shock, he told me that he was based in the VG building (newspaper), when he went down to the lobby there was smoke everywhere, but also it looked like someone had spray hosed the walls in jam

Also told me that the initial blast sent him half way across the office in his wheelie chair, he was lucky not to get milled by flying glass.

Thank jaysus he has the bottle of Captain Morgan to calm his nerves lol, sadly his girlfriend has spent the evening bawling her eyes out thinking that he may have been disintegrated, have to say, he's a lucky fecker that he didn't leave the building when he originally planned to.

smilerxxx · 22-07-2011 10:44PM

Norwayviking wrote: »

since the attacker targeted both the goverment buildings and the youth camp for the labor party,i dont think it looks like a assassination attemt.;)
But then again nobody knows the motives behind the attack yet,but clearly it most have been political.

The pm was attending the camp tomorrow maybe the gunman had false info and thought he was due their today

Tabnabs · 22-07-2011 10:44PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I hope you're not assuming that man is a muslim? Racial profiling is nothing to be proud of.

Do you understand what a racist is? :rolleyes:

Crazy Horse 6 · 22-07-2011 10:44PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

My initial thoughts when I first heard this news today were that Norway is culturally similar to Ireland, with a similar population/politics/economy. If something like that can happen there, it could probably just as easily happen here too. It's frightening really.

We are nothing like Norway. They are a strong proud nation and we are cowards.

previous user · 22-07-2011 10:45PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

My initial thoughts when I first heard this news today were that Norway is culturally similar to Ireland, with a similar population/politics/economy. If something like that can happen there, it could probably just as easily happen here too. It's frightening really.

Terrible what happened there, if we're similiar then I hope an oige get wiped out.

Oslo bombed

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