Somalina Posted July 22, 2011 OSLO (Norway): An explosion took place Friday in the building of Norway's biggest tabloid newspaper VG located near the government's headquarters in Oslo, local media reported. "I see that some windows of the VG building and the government headquarters have been broken. Some people covered with blood are lying in the street," a journalist with public radio NRK said from the scene. As per details, a powerful bomb blast has rocked government and media buildings in Norway's capital Oslo, causing 'deaths and injuries' and heavy damage, police say. Norwegian media reported that at least two people died. 'A powerful explosion has taken place in the government quarter,' Norwegian police said in a statement on Friday. 'Police can confirm there were deaths and injuries following the explosion in the government quarter this afternoon,' police added later. Images on Norwegian television showed the prime minister's office and other buildings heavily damaged, sidewalks covered in broken glass and smoke rising from the area. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was reported to have not been in his office at the time of the blast. Police had sealed off the area, which houses the offices of the prime minister, the finance ministry and the country's biggest tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang (VG). Two cabinet ministers told a foreign news agency that Stoltenberg had been scheduled to be visiting areas far outside Oslo on Friday. News agency NTB also reported that Stoltenberg was 'safe'. Witnesses said the damage was extensive and that injured victims could be seen. 'I see that some windows of the VG building and the government headquarters have been broken. Some people covered with blood are lying in the street,' a journalist with public radio NRK said from the scene. 'There is glass everywhere. It is total chaos. The windows of all the surrounding buildings have been blown out,' said NRK journalist Ingunn Andersen.The radio reported that the explosion seemed to happen near the finance ministry, which is near the Norwegian prime minister's office and the VG editorial offices. Photos posted on the NRK website also showed shattered glass in front of the devastated facade of the VG building, soldiers closing off the area and people surrounding someone apparently injured in the blast. It was not immediately known who was behind the bombing, but Norway's intelligence police agency said in February that Islamic extremism was a major threat to country. NATO member Norway, which counts some 500 troops in Afghanistan, has never suffered an attack at home by Islamic extremists. However, police last year arrested three Muslim men based in Norway suspected of planning an attack using explosives in the Scandinavian country. Norwegian prosecutors earlier this month also filed a terrorism charge against Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam, who was accused of threatening a politician with death over his potential deportation from the country. Krekar had warned that 'Norway will pay a heavy price' if he were deported. Norwegian F-16 fighter jets are also participating in air strikes in Libya, though the country has said it will withdraw its forces from the Libya operations on August 1. The Norwegian military said in May that it had been the victim of a serious cyber attack at the end of March on the day after its jets for the first time carried out bombings in Libya. Neighbouring Sweden was targeted in a suicide bombing in December when Taimour Abdulwahab, a 29-year-old whose family fled from Iraq to Sweden in 1991, blew up himself and his car in a deserted side-street off of Stockholm's busiest pedestrian thoroughfare, injuring two people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalina Posted July 22, 2011 Oslo bomb kills 7, gunman opens fire on youth at camp SLO - A bomb ripped through Oslo's central government district on Friday killing seven people, police said, and hours later a gunman opened fire at a youth camp on a nearby island. One witness said he saw 20 dead at the youth camp, but police said they had no confirmation of deaths on the island. “The number is 10, possibly nine,” deputy oslo police chief Sveining Sponheim told reporters when asked about the preliminary toll in a shooting on Utoeya island, north west of Oslo. “That’s what we know so far,” he said. He said a man had been arrested and was being questioned by Oslo police, who believe he also has knowledge of a bomb blast in Oslo that killed seven people. "I've seen it with my own eyes, at least 20 dead people lying in the water," Andre Skeie, 26, told Reuters by telephone. He said he had gone to Utoeya island with his boat to help people evacuate the island after the shooting. Police declined to comment on casualties at the youth camp at Utoeya, north west of Oslo. State television said a man was arrested. The Oslo bomb blew out the windows of the Prime Minister's building, damaged the finance and oil ministries and scattered glass and masonry across the streets. A Reuters witness said he had seen soldiers taking up positions around the centre of the capital, while police said they feared there might be explosives at the youth camp. With police advising people to evacuate central Oslo, apparently in fear of more attacks, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Norwegian TV2 television in a phone call that the situation was "very serious." He said that police had told him not to say where he was speaking from. "It exploded — it must have been a bomb. People ran in panic . . . I counted at least 10 injured people," said bystander Kjersti Vedun, who was leaving the area of the blast in Oslo. Shortly after the bomb, a gunman described by a police official as tall and blond opened fire at the island of Utoeya north-west of Oslo, sending people scattering in terror. The target was a youth camp of Stoltenberg's Labour party youth section. "There was a lot of shooting . . . We hid under a bed. It was very terrifying," a young woman present at the island youth camp told British Sky television. She said police helicopters were flying overhead. Daily newspaper VG said on its website the gunman had been dressed as a policeman. Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 said several people had been killed in the shooting spree. There was no clear claim of responsibility and while the attacks appeared to bear the hallmarks of an Islamist militant assault, analysts said it was too early to draw any conclusions. NATO member Norway has been the target of threats before over its involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya. The attack came just over a year after three men were arrested on suspicion of having links to al-Qaida and planning to attack targets in Norway. It came also less than three months after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan. Violence or the threat of it has already come to the other Nordic states: a botched bomb attack took place in the Swedish capital Stockholm last December and the bomber was killed. Denmark has received repeated threats after a newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in late 2005, angering Muslims worldwide. The Oslo blast tore at the facade of the 17-storey central government building, blowing out most of the windows and scattering shards of metal and other debris for hundreds of metres (yards). The building of a publisher which recently put out a translation of a Danish book on the Mohammad cartoon controversy was also affected, but was apparently not the target. The blast scattered debris across the streets and shook the entire city centre at around 3:30 p.m. local time. A Reuters witness saw eight people injured, one covered in a sheet and apparently dead. MOST VIOLENT SINCE SECOND WORLD WAR Madrid suffered an Islamist militant bomb attack on commuter trains in 2004 that killed 191 people. Four suicide bombers killed 52 people in an attack on London's transport system in 2005. The Reuters correspondent said the streets had been fairly quiet in mid-afternoon on a Friday in high summer, when many Oslo residents take vacation or leave for weekend breaks. "This is a terror attack. It is the most violent event to strike Norway since World War Two," said Geir Bekkevold, an opposition parliamentarian for the Christian Peoples Party. The district attacked is the very heart of power in Norway, with several other key administration buildings nearby. Nearby ministries were also hit by the blast, including the oil ministry, which was on fire. Nevertheless, security is not tight given the lack of violence in the past. The failed December attack in Stockholm was by a Muslim man who grew up in Sweden but said he had been angered by Sweden's involvement in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan and the Prophet Mohammad cartoons. That attack was followed weeks later by the arrest in Denmark of five men for allegedly planning to attack the newspaper which first ran the Mohammad cartoons. In July 2010, Norwegian police arrested three men for an alleged plot to organize at least one attack on Norwegian targets and said they were linked to individuals investigated in the United States and Britain. John Drake, senior risk consultant at London-based consultancy AKE, said: "It may not be too dissimilar to the terrorist attack in Stockholm in December which saw a car bomb and secondary explosion shortly after in the downtown area. "That attack was later claimed as a reprisal for Sweden's contribution to the efforts in Afghanistan." Political violence is virtually unknown in a country known for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize and mediating in conflicts, including in the Middle East and Sri Lanka. © Copyright © Reuters Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Oslo+double+terror+attack+dead/5143941/story.html#ixzz1Srohiy3q Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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General Duke Posted July 22, 2011 News just in, the man captured is a Norwegian and the Police are saying its a local political issue.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
