TV9 - "NORWAY TERROR ATTACK" : OSLO AT LEAST 87 KILLED INCLUDING A BOMB BLAST IN CAPITAL

TV9 - "NORWAY TERROR ATTACK" : AT LEAST 87 KILLED INCLUDING A BOMB BLAST IN CAPITAL............!


At least 87 people were feared dead in Norway last night after a gunman mowed down students at a summer camp hours after a bomb had devastated the centre of Oslo.

Dozens of youths attending a political gathering were reported to have been shot dead when a terrorist disguised as a policeman opened fire on a holiday island on a lake near the capital.

Police say at least 80 people were killed in the youth camp after initially reporting the death toll at 10.

Seven people had earlier been killed in central Oslo when a car bomb went off outside the country's main government building. Members of the country's ruling Labour Party were the targets in both cases. Police had confirmed a total of 17 deaths last night.

British security forces were immediately placed on alert amid fears that Norway's worst terrorist outrage might be the first in a series of attacks on the West. The carnage followed repeated warnings that al-Qaeda was planning a Mumbai-style attack on countries involved in the war in Afghanistan, where Norway has about 500 troops. At least one Islamic terror group quickly claimed the attacks were "revenge" for Norway's engagement in Afghanistan, but last night Norwegian police said the attack did not appear to be the work of Islamist terrorists.

The man arrested in connection with the Utoya island shooting was named last night by the the justice ministry as Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian national. Investigators believe he was also involved in the bombing, but have not ruled out the possibility that he had accomplices.

Officials said 10 people had been confirmed dead in the shootings and a further seven in the bombing, but said the total was likely to rise.

Witnesses reported teenagers throwing themselves into the notoriously dangerous waters around the island in a desperate attempt to flee the bullets. Rescue workers claimed to have seen between 20 and 30 bodies floating in the water.

Andre Skeie, 26, who took his boat to the island to help evacuate people, said: "I've seen it with my own eyes, at least 20 dead people lying in the water." Relations and friends of those caught up in the attack were warned not to phone in case the ringing gave away the location of those hiding from the gunman.

"We were in the grass. We had to be quiet as we hid," said Lisa Irene Johansen, one of the crowd. "He was wearing a police uniform, with a shooting vest, and there was complete panic as he shot."

The powerful explosion targeting the office of Jens Stoltenberg, the country's prime minister, at 3.15pm, caused widespread destruction to the oil ministry and several media outlets, including the state broadcaster, NRK, and Norwegian tabloid newspaper VG. A man in a police uniform was reportedly seen leaving the bomb site shortly before the explosion.

Most of the windows in the 20-floor building where Mr Stoltenberg worked were shattered. He was working at home yesterday and spoke briefly by phone from a secure location. Struggling to cope with the enormity of the attack, he said the army would be mobilised to assist the police. "It's important that we don't let ourselves be scared. Because the purpose of that kind of violence is to create fear," he added.

Bodies lay strewn among the devastation in Oslo. Eyewitnesses described torsos hanging out of broken windows and corpses lying untouched in the wreckage-strewn streets. "It looks like a war zone. It doesn't look as if one is in Norway. All the windows are ruined. The whole entrance area is crushed," said Anne Marte Blindheim, a journalist at the scene. "There is blood and case documents all around and crushed cars. A car is lying on the side, completely burnt out."

David Cameron released a statement expressing solidarity with the Norwegian people. "I was outraged to hear about the explosion in Oslo and attack in Utoya today that have killed and injured innocent people," he said.

"My thoughts are with the wounded and those who have lost friends and family, and I know everyone in Britain will feel the same. These attacks are a stark reminder of the threat we all face from terrorism. I have called Prime Minister Stoltenberg this evening to express my sincere condolences and to let him know that our thoughts are with the Norwegian people at this tragic time.

The UK terrorist alert level remained at "substantial" last night, meaning an attack was a strong possibility.

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[iWakZzZy]

if you are Norwegian...Like !

[ericmobleyfo]

Haha, it says lemonparty 0:15

[abza001]

Der staat opeengegever moment in beeld 23 juli maar het is 22 :P

[Northern85Star]

.. i also see a lot of broken girls after relationship with immigrants. And many autists due to cousin-cousin relationship. You really have no idea how problems there are with immigrants compared to native scandinavians.

[Northern85Star]

.. the community without reprisals - because criticising these things will make you a "racists". Once people realise this, they often become much against immigration, because we realise it's a group who's very intolerant. Relatively many non-muslim immigrants oppose immigration aswell.. FYI.

Open your eyes to the negative sides as well, who's paying for all these problems? Your taxmoney and our youth in schools who are bullied by gangs (i see a LOT of the latter in psychiatry).

[Northern85Star]

@XxStine93xX You KNOW what i mean, that not all immigrants are problems, but immigrantion as w WHOLE is a disadvantage to our societies. You're saying that i can't claim that "norwegians drink alot" because not all norwegians drink. It's still true in a general sense, just like immigrants are more criminal .

I know how you behave since you have no problems with where you live - you turn the blind eye to the negative things, because you would not be openly criticising things in...

[XxStine93xX]

@Northern85Star I don't look down. Don't act like you know how I behave, you don't know me, you do not know how it is where I live, you're acting stupid.

There are allot of immigrants with problems, but you're talking like every single immigrant is the devil himself.

And, you're calling a mass-murderer a hero. To me it sounds like you should see a psychiatric, not be one.

[XxStine93xX]

@Northern85Star I wouldn't blame all immigrants. I would blame the one who raped me.

[Northern85Star]

Please enlighten ME about the positive sides of immigration. You know damn well that your 98% immigrant community is troubled. Try not staring down into the ground the next time you walk by a couple of young immigrants, or talk back when they come with witty remarks.. then you'll see your own definition of tolerance..

Overfaldsvoldtægter gør ikke sagen mindre aktuel. We didn't even have gang rapes before immigration started, ffs.

[Northern85Star]

@XxStine93xX Are you kidding me? So if you got raped, you would not blame the immigrants who do 100% of these assaults, but blame the government for the actions of immigrants? Even though the perpetrator told you that he was doing it according to his religion?

I work in psykiatry, we are well aware of the difference in culture and religion, and we spent alot of time and money trying to fix kids with genetic illnesses due to immigrant cousin-cousin marriage.

[XxStine93xX]

@Northern85Star Would you please stop enlighten me of things I already know, and probably know better than you, since I'm the Norwegian one here. Those are "overfallsvoldtekter". I would get to know the story better before I used it as an argument in my discussions.

And don't think I don't know that there's a problem here. But the problem in Norway doesn't really lay with the immigrants, but rather with the governments immigrant-politics.

[XxStine93xX]

@Northern85Star I come from an area were there live 98% immigrants and I haven't had any problem. Don't act like you know how it is where I live, that's stupid. I'm not naive, I know there are huge problems, but you can't just stop all immigrants. The world doesn't work that way. And yes, you are narrow-minded, and judgmental at that. Immigrants in general aren't bad people. Most of them have a very difficult past. To be honest, people calling mass-murderers heroes scare me more than immigrants.