By ELISA MALA and J. DAVID GOODMAN
Published: July 22, 2011
"...After the shooting the police seized a 32-year-old Norwegian man on the island, according to the police and Justice Minister Knut Storberget.He was later identified as Anders Behring Breivik and was characterized by officials as a right-wing extremist..."
I'm an idiot, I went with the early speculation of blame the Muslim extremist bs at first glance, probably because of the Bawer book. Wrong. I was soooooo wrong:
Norway suspect 'fundamentalist Christian'
Pierre-Henry Deshayes
July 24, 2011 - 1:24AM
What Just Happened in Oslo, Norway? (UPDATES)
Fri Jul. 22, 2011 10:25 AM PDT Mother Jones
Nick Baumann
probably unrelated
OSLO - Norwegian oil firm DNO said on Tuesday it had more than doubled its oil reserve estimate for its licensed Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, sending its share price up nearly four percent.
"After this third party review by our external auditors, the Tawke oil field is confirmed to be a world class, giant oil field," DNO chief Helge Eide said in a statement.
more possibly unrelated info
| Book review: 'Midnight on the Mavi Marmara' |
"...Bayoumi introduces the anthology's subject by emphasising its international impact.
The attack on the Mavi Marmara, he explains, resulted in demonstrations in major European capitals, Turkey, Canada and many US cities. Bayoumi credits the attack for pushing Egypt to finally open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza.
Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain Greece, and Sweden summoned their Israeli ambassadors, Bayoumi continues, while Turkey, Ecuador and South Africa recalled theirs from Jerusalem. Some dockworkers in American and European cities refused to unload Israeli ships for a time in protest, a move he cites as evidence of the attack's widespread global unpopularity.... '
The Mullah Krekar Show
Foreign Policy
Is this the man behind the Oslo terrorist bombing?
BY J.M. BERGER | JULY 22, 2011
Is this the man behind the Oslo terrorist bombing?
BY J.M. BERGER | JULY 22, 2011
I read Bruce Bawer's book about 4 years ago, and here is a blogpost of his from about a week ago. Bawer is a gay American living in Oslo and his persective worried me while I was reading the book, but umm....I pretty much forgot about it till this morning, because I figured he leaned a bit too far to the right for me.
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