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ilikeverin
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« on: July 22, 2011, 01:06:16 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254705

Police suspect there is a connection between the explosions and the shooting.

Who *could* be behind this? Clearly it's not a "lone nut", could it be a "lone group"? I say no, too big. The scale is huge. It has to be organized. If Norway had some kind of huge opposition group that is pro-violence, then that's maybe, but there are none.

Islamist Terror seems the only answer, but why Norway?
Well, they are in Afghanistan. And they are Scandinavians, everybody knows there are no differences whatsoever between Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

The Utoya attack doesn't really make sense in an Al Qaeda context, though. Some socialist teenagers' organization's summer camp? Seriously?
Yeah, I know the prime minister was to attend. Though the way it was carried out it's quite unclear whether he was supposed to be the target.

Also, waddaya mean "bad guys"? Are there any witnesses regarding the planting of the bomb (wait... what's the current word? One huge bomb or several coordinated ones?)

Well, if these two attacks are related, it's all rather confusing; if they were going after the PM, and if they thought he was at the youth conference, then why have the bomb outside his office in Oslo, rather than somewhere where it might be even more dangerous, if you're going to have a bomb at all?  Why were both the shooting and the bomb "necessary", so to speak?
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2011, 10:13:03 PM »

Death toll has been raised to 80, damn.

Horrible, horrible, horrible Sad
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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2011, 10:36:08 PM »

Death toll has been raised to 80, damn.

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Was that from the shooting or the bombing, or both.

At least 80 from the shooting according to the police.  The bombing toll remains at 7 for now.

Good lord.  It is almost impossible to kill that many people, unless you have automatic weapons.  Even then, you'd need hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

He had both automatic weapons and handguns.
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